Isaac Oskar, Thanks a million! The script ran perfectly, and now Lyx, this beta version, starts and runs perfectly! What a relief! Back to work and spared from Libre Office!
I'll uninstall 2.3.7 and wait for 2.4 to find its way into Bookworm, and meanwhile use this one. Peter On Tue, 7 Nov 2023 05:32:47 +0000 Isaac Oscar Gariano <isaacos...@live.com.au> wrote: > Dear Peter and Folsk, > Although I was able to reproduce the issue with LyX 2.3.7 (the version on the > debian repos), I was unable to reproduce the issue with the current LyX 2.4 > beta. > My guess is this is because LyX 2.3.7 uses Qt5 but LyX 2.4 uses Qt6. > As there's no issue with the current development version and it only seems to > be happening on fluxbox, I don't think this problem is a top priority for the > developers. > > To use LyX 2.4, it seems you will need to compile it yourself, but I wrote a > simple sh script that should do everything for and install lyx to > /usr/local/bin/lyx (v 2.3.7 will still be accesable at /usr/bin/lyx): > > su -c 'apt-get install libhunspell-dev libenchant-2-dev libaspell-dev bc > gettext libmagic-dev make qt6-base-private-dev qt6-base-dev qt6-svg-dev g++' > wget https://lyx.mirror.garr.it/devel/lyx-2.4/lyx-2.4.0~beta5.tar.xz > tar -xvf 'lyx-2.4.0~beta5.tar.xz' > cd 'lyx-2.4.0~beta5' > mkdir build > cd build > export CXXFLAGS='-Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-c++20-compat -Wall -O2 > -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=3 -fstack-protector-strong > -funwind-tables -fasynchronous-unwind-tables -fstack-clash-protection > -flto=auto' > export LDFLAGS='-flto=auto' > ../configure --enable-qt6 --without-included-boost --with-aspell > --with-hunspell --with-enchant --enable-build-type=rel > make > make install > > — Isaac Oscar Gariano > ________________________________ > From: lyx-users <lyx-users-boun...@lists.lyx.org> on behalf of Peter > <peter.northe...@gmail.com> > Sent: Tuesday, 7 November 2023 9:04 AM > To: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org <lyx-users@lists.lyx.org> > Subject: Re: Debian 12 and Lyx 2.3.7-1 > > OK, created a new Virtual Box VM, Debian 12.2. Installed none of the > desktops or WMs or display managers, just the base system. Then installed > xorg, fluxbox and lyx. Started xorg with startx and this entered fluxbox > which seemed to be behaving normally. Then started lyx from a terminal. Same > thing, it doesn't manage to start, similar long scrolling list of error > messages. > > Then installed ICEWM into this VM, just to make sure, started it with 'startx > icewm' and lyx started fine from a terminal. > > So that's it for me now. I'll try contacting the developers list. > > Peter > -- > lyx-users mailing list > lyx-users@lists.lyx.org > http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
