On 9/16/14, 9:10 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> On 9/16/14, 8:31 PM, Matthew Parry wrote:
>>
>> Hi Alex,
>>
>> I guess I missed the memo on 10.6!
>>
>> I will have the lyx .deb and .info files floating around on a backup;
>> can I use those to recompile an older version of lyx?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Matt
>>
>
> Yeah, official support stopped on June 4.
>
> The last update to lyx* was to switch to newer boost libraries.  The
> error that you're seeing suggests that maybe these weren't appropriate
> on 10.6.  I don't recall if I did any separate testing on 10.6 or just
> assumed that the update would work, and if I did do any testing it was
> just a build test without a run-time check.
>
> If you've got an older .deb you can install that via
>
> sudo dpkg -i /path/to/lyx-x11_<version-revision>_<architecture>.deb
>
> To build from an older .info, the safest option is to put the file in
> /sw/fink/10.4/local/main/finkinfo, verify that local/main appears in the
> Trees: line of /sw/etc/fink.conf, and then use
>
> fink install lyx-x11-<version-revision>
>
> to install that version-revision of lyx-x11
>

Following up: I tried it on 10.7, with no runtime error.

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/

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