Hi all,
I have this problem:
I have Redhat 7.3 installed and i'm trying to install Lyx.
I downloaded lyx-1.3.2.tar.gz e I launched ./configure
but it return this error:

** Cannot find libforms or libxforms. Please check that the xforms
library
is correctly installed on your system.

** Cannot find forms.h. Please check that the forms library
is correctly installed on your system.
Then I downloaded xforms-1.0-1.i386.rpm and I installed it. I checked
and I find libforms.so.1 and libforms.so.1.0
in /usr/X11R6/lib/, but I didn't find forms.h.
Then I relaunched ./configure but it return the same error message!!!
Where is the problem?
How can I solve it??
Can someone help me??
Thanks!

On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:46:59 -0700, bob wrote:

> Then I downloaded xforms-1.0-1.i386.rpm and I installed it. I checked
> and I find libforms.so.1 and libforms.so.1.0
> in /usr/X11R6/lib/, but I didn't find forms.h.
> Then I relaunched ./configure but it return the same error message!!!
> Where is the problem?

You only installed the binaries and failed to install the header files.

> How can I solve it??

Install xforms-1.0-1-devel.i386.rpm

You are also going to have to install TeX and possibly other dependencies.
Read the text files in your lyx source tree.

Dave Uhring <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<pan.2003.07.17.15.54.14.775933@yahoo.com>...
> On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 08:46:59 -0700, bob wrote:
>
> > Then I downloaded xforms-1.0-1.i386.rpm and I installed it. I checked
> > and I find libforms.so.1 and libforms.so.1.0
> > in /usr/X11R6/lib/, but I didn't find forms.h.
> > Then I relaunched ./configure but it return the same error message!!!
> > Where is the problem?
>
> You only installed the binaries and failed to install the header files.
>
> > How can I solve it??
>
> Install xforms-1.0-1-devel.i386.rpm
>
> You are also going to have to install TeX and possibly other dependencies.
> Read the text files in your lyx source tree.

Thanks!!
I installed xforms-devel and now it work!!