The lyx-1.1.6fix.*.rpm contains a public release of LyX. 1) Read the xforms-README file for important information about xforms and LyX. 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-1.1.6fix4-1.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-1.1.6fix4-1.i386.rpm 4) My system is a RedHat Linux/GNU 6.1. 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-1.1.6fix4-1.src.rpm cd /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386 rpm -Uvh lyx-1.1.6fix4-1.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 (With thanks to Mate Wierdl who did the initial work on the LyX RPMs)