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.
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 -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
