On Fri, Feb 24, 2023 at 10:42:54AM -0600, Chris Menzel wrote: > Sure thing! I note that I have already received one report of a successful > 2.3.7 compile and install based on these steps. :-) > > Install basic QT5 stuff > $ sudo apt install qtbase5-dev qtchooser qt5-qmake qtbase5-dev-tools > > Then, to avoid "unable to compile simple QT binary??? error, the following: > $ sudo apt install pkg-config libqt5x11extras5-dev libqt5svg5-dev libice-dev > > I was also missing libmagic-dev on my Dell XPS installation: > $ sudo apt install libmagic-dev
The universial debian command for getting all necessary components for compilation does not work in ubuntu? apt build-dep lyx > Finally, I ran configure with the follow spec for QTDIR: > $ ./configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt5 > > Then it???s just a matter of: > $ make > $ sudo make install Note that you might want to install LyX only locally to your user directory and not to mess up with your base system in /usr (because this might backfire later if you want to upgrade your distro). You can do that by adding --prefix in configure (e.g. something like --prefix=/home/user/lyx/ where user is your login; the installed files together with executable will be find in ~/lyx/). Pavel -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
