Hello Maria. I am seeing that LyX 2.4.1 is on Debian backports:
https://packages.debian.org/bookworm-backports/lyx I don't know whether you can use Debian backports in Linux Mint. If I use Linux Minut, than I would use the Debian edition to have greater compatibility with the Debian repositories. I also work writing papers. Compiling software is not option for me. Best regards. Manuel. On Thu, 2024-09-19 at 15:53 -0400, Maria Gouskova wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to install 2.4.1 on Linux Mint 21.3. I have previously > successfully compiled it from source on 22, and now I cannot work on > the files produced on my other computer using the 21.3 computer > because of lyx2lyx failures. So I figured I'd just compile from > source on this other machine, and it is just a nightmare. > > When I try to run ./configure, I get "configure: error: cannot > compile a simple Qt executable. Check you have the right $QTDIR." > > I went to the LyxOnUbuntu wiki, which might be out of date, and tried > to remove and add the stable repository, only to get the error "This > PPA does not support jammy". When I looked at the stable repo index, > https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/ubuntu/release , it became > clear that this repo is not being updated anymore. So it's basically > compile from source or bust. > > So then I followed the next tip on that wiki, which is to run > > $ sudo apt-get build-dep lyx > > And I got "E: You must put some 'deb-src' URIs in your sources.list" > > Now, I've already spent about 30 minutes sorting out my Qt5 > installation (that took some doing, but qmake-qt5 --version tells me > I am "using Qt version 5.15.3 in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu" so I > thought I was all set). > > What is up? Upgrading used to be fairly straightforward, and now I > feel like I'm spending half an afternoon package-wrangling instead of > writing my papers... > > Maria -- Manuel Luque www.uned.es/universidad/docentes/ciencias/manuel-luque-gallego.html -- lyx-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
