Thanks to all. As I have 5 employees who also use lyx (we run a Gates-free office) and we edit each other's documents, I think it best to await the next release of Debian - even if I miss a few goodies in the interim.
John On Saturday, December 12, 2020 2:47:28 PM PST Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote: > I would try the PPA on a testsystem before changing in production, in your > situation. That would then update with the usual “apt update”. > > I like bleeding edge, tip of the spear, crack of my ass, to quote... but use > homebrew on the mac so as to not have to do anything manually which is > difficult to keep track... > > el > > — > Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPhone > > On 12 Dec 2020, 23:47 +0200, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@lyx.org>, wrote: > > 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 -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users