Re: Getting Lyx up and running with Hamm

[Stefan.Ehlen@saw.rwth-aachen.de]

Hi,

 in message <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.96.980915175759.720A-100000@Johann> you wrote:
 
>On Tue, 15 Sep 1998 Stefan.Ehlen@saw.rwth-aachen.de wrote:
>
>
>> After upgrading to Hamm, Lyx doesn't work any more, complaining that it 
>> "can't load library 'libforms.so.0.81' ". This is reported as bug #18477.
>> 
>> Is there any work-around for this?
>
>Did you install libforms?  I have installed libforms-0.88.1-2 (I think
>from non-free).
>
>In /usr/X11R6/lib as root I did a 
>
>ln -sv libforms.so.0.88 libforms.so.86 

Yes, this was my first attempt, too. But now, I tried it again, made an 
error, lost libforms.so.0.88, screamed in pain, de-installed libforms and 
lyx, re-installed it and voila, there it is!! 

I have no clue why.

Thank you
Stefan