On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 11:54:02PM +0100, Christian Ridderström wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone have a list of the build dependencies that need to be installed
> in order to build the latest LyX on a clean Ubuntu 16.04 using Qt5?  I.e.,
> I'm looking for the
> 
>    sudo apt-get install build-essential ... XXX
> 
> and the other steps you need to do in order to be able build LyX with Qt5.

I think you can just do

  sudo apt-get build-dep lyx

Does that work?

> I've been searching the web for some build instructions and the best I
> found so far was this script:
>    https://github.com/scottkosty/lyx-tester/blob/master/CreateQt5
> 
> I'm hoping not all of the dependencies in that script are needed, and that
> Qt5 can be installed rather than built.

Yes that script is for compiling Qt 5, which I don't think you want. 

Scott

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