On Mon, 20 Feb 2006, Paul Smith wrote: > On 2/20/06, icebna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't know. My experience is few. Can you help me, for know as built > > the rpm to update my lyx-1.3.6 ? > > Certainly, I can help you with my best pleasure. The procedure is as follows: > > 1. download the source of LyX 1.3.7 from > > ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/stable/lyx-1.3.7.tar.gz > > 2. uncompress it; > > 3. go inside the directory where it is uncompressed the source of LyX; > > 4. on the command line run the command: > > ./configure --with-frontend=qt --with-pspell > > 5. run the command make; > > 6. become superuser and run checkinstall. > > Your rpm will be built at the end! That is not too difficult, believe me.
Won't he need some Qt-related packages in order to build it? Having said that, I took the liberty of placing your instructions on this page for future reference: http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnRedHat Of course, I just noticed that it's not really RedHat but Mandriva.. hope that doesn't matter. /Christian -- Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr