The lyx-1.0.4.*.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.

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'. If you want to change
this, just specify a different prefix using the `--prefix' flag to
rpm.  For example,

	rpm -Uvh --prefix /opt lyx-1.0.4-1.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-1.0.4-1.i386.rpm

4)
The much smaller tetex-lyx package is just the lyx TeX macros installed
in the default tetex location. You can install it if you have a default
tetex RPM installed and it should work fine.

5)
My system is a RedHat Linux/GNU 6.0. 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-1.0.4-1.src.rpm
	cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386
	rpm -Uvh lyx-1.0.4-1.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.
	
Kayvan A. Sylvan <kayvan@sylvan.com>

(With thanks to Mate Wierdl <mw@moni.msci.memphis.edu> who did the initial
work on the LyX RPMs)