On 12/12/20 4:18 PM, John White wrote:
This sounds like an excellent way to keep lyx up to date, but I am clueless
about alternative repositories. If they require github, I'm not interested.
Lyx 2.3.2 ships with Debian Buster and it works fine for my purposes. I have
learned that adding software versions not in the Buster repository sometimes
causes problems. So I will probably keep using 2.3.2 until next summer or so
when, I expect, Debian should come out with a new version.
It's really quite easy to build LyX yourself. You don't need git (let
alone github). You can just download the source that we release. Then
it's the usual method:
# tar -zxvf lyx-2.3.6.tar.gz
# cd lyx-2.3.6
# ./configure
Add --enable-qt5 there if you want to use qt5
# make
# sudo make install
To get the dependencies needed for the build, you should be able to do:
# sudo apt-get build-deps lyx
There's also a PPA for Ubuntu. I don't know if it works with Debian.
Riki
Best,
John
On Saturday, December 12, 2020 7:42:23 AM PST Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
Hartmut,
would a better approach not be an alternative repository from which the
package manager then can install the latest DEB?
el
On 2020-12-12 12:47 , Hartmut Haase wrote:
Hi Richard,
I'm a little puzzled why you would need that. LyX uses Qt, yes, but
if I install LyX from the distribution it is about 9 month older than
the last release. Because this one does not have binaries for all
distributions, I use to compile myself. Therefore I need the Qt library
files.
The error message is
checking for Qt library name... failed
configure: error: cannot compile a simple Qt executable. Check you have
the
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