The lyx-1.0.1.*.rpm contains a public release of LyX.
Note that this release includes reLyX, a beta version of a LaTeX2LyX
converter.  

Warning: In order to make the package relocatable, I used features
that are available only with rpm-2.5.* or newer.  In this ftp
directory, you can find the latest rpm for rpm.  If your system is RH
5.0 or later, you should have no problems installing the binary rpm.  

1) 
Since it is recommended to use xforms-88 with this version of lyx,
I made xforms-88 a required package in the rpm.  You can find the
latest xforms-0.88 in this ftp directory.

2) 
The default installation prefix is `/usr/local'. If you want to change
this, just specify a different prefix using the `--prefix' flag to
rpm.  For example,

	rpm -Uvh --prefix /opt lyx-1.0.1-2.i386.rpm

installs with /opt prefix.  

3)
A few tetex packages are required by the binary rpm, but if you have
a different TeX distribution or teTeX is installed without rpm, just 
install using the `--nodeps' option, like

	rpm -Uvh --nodeps lyx-1.0.1-2.i386.rpm

If you are upgrading a pre version of this release, you need to  use
the `--oldpackage' option, such as

	rpm -Uvh --oldpackage lyx-1.0.1-2.i386.rpm

and combine it with `--nodeps' if needed, like

	rpm -Uvh --oldpackage --nodeps lyx-1.0.1-2.i386.rpm

4) My system is a RedHat Linux/GNU 5.2. If you have problems running
the binary rpm (e.g. you have an older RH system with older C
library), then you should have no problem compiling from the src.rpm.
To do this, do

	rpm --rebuild lyx-1.0.1-2.src.rpm
	cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386
	rpm -Uvh lyx-1.0.1-2.i386.rpm

(or perhaps in the last step you need to use the `--nodeps' and/or the
`--oldpackage' options; see 3) above).

Note that building lyx requires about 35M free space on your disk.
	
 mw@moni.msci.memphis.edu