Hello, thanks for the appreciation.
To answer the questions, after adding the PPA it is necessary to select the package among those listed in the PPA description. They can coexist including with distribution version. They have different build suffixes and thus config directory. The stable one is lyx-2.5 with config directory ~/.lyx-2.5. Simply adding the PPA should not result in altering the existing installation.
Guillaume Le 22/05/2026 à 21:58, Maria Gouskova via lyx-users a écrit :
On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 2:57 PM Scott Kostyshak via lyx-users <lyx- [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 08:40:03AM -0400, Richard Kleeman via lyx- users wrote: > On 5/17/26 4:12 PM, Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni via lyx-users wrote: > > Bonjour, > > > > This message concerns people who are using a Linux distribution based on > > Debian (such as Ubuntu), and who used to keep their LyX version up to > > date thanks to the official package archive. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Guillaume > > > Hi Guillame, > > Thanks for this great new resource. One quick question at a "nuts and bolts" > level: You have 3 different releases supported (2 devs and one "stable"). I > If add your ppa how does apt make a choice as to which to install? I would > prefer to use the "stable" version... I think it is determined by which package name you install. If you want stable, I think (maybe wait for someone else to confirm), you want to install the following: lyx-2.5I added the PPA and updated, and I don't think I had to do anything special--whatever was in the official Ubuntu repo (some release candidate circa 2.4.0?) got updated to 2.5.1. I did have to change some home directory .lyx stuff, but that was so easy compared to building LyX from source/updating QT/etc.Thanks, Guillaume, for making this! Maria Scott-- lyx-users mailing list[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users <https:// lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users>
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