On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 11:04:10AM +0100, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Am Montag, 6. November 2006 09:11 schrieb Georg Baum: > > Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > > Dear List-members, > > > > > > Could somebody who uses Debian kindly point me to a suitable search > > > machine which I could insert in my sources.list in order to build a more > > > recent LyX? > Thanks for the responses. However, I have almost no experience with Debian so > far. The > /etc/apt/sources.list > has entrances such as: > > deb http://host/debian distribution section1 section2 section3 > deb-src http://host/debian distribution section1 section2 section3 > (from http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/ch-basico.en.html) > > > Look at http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnDebian > > for more information about LyX > > on debian.>
> ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? > Something like: > deb http://http.wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnDebian > deb-src http://http.wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnDebian > > or ftp.wiki.....?? > > ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Have you followed Georg's advice and just read the page on the wiki? This should've explained that this is not what you should put in your sources.list. > (By the way I am using Kanotix if this is of importance) I'm not sure on which flavour of Debian this is based so yes this might be important. If it's based on the current stable which is sarge the packages from backports.org are for you. If it's based on the current testing which is called etch then you should not use the packages from backports.org (I doubt that they would work with the current testing). So IMHO it would be the best for you to ask in a Kanotix support forum for advice from where you can take 3rd party packages. The use of backports.org is even a little bit more complicated and you should learn how package pinning works before you try to use it. If it's too complex for you to get started it should be possible for you to install the LyX version from sarge and then download only the lyx packages from backports.org and install them by hand via dpkg -i. http://debian.netcologne.de/debian-backports/pool/main/l/lyx/ It might help if you would quote the exact lines you've in your sources.list ATM to determine which packages should work for you. Hm slightly off-topic here ... Just to clarify the status of the LyX packages in Debian for the other readers a little bit: Debian/stable (nickname sarge): 1.3.4 Debian/testing (this one is nicknamed etch and will be the new stable in 2-3 month): 1.4.2 Debian/unstable (nickname sid and this won't change): 1.4.3 I'm waiting ATM for Per (the only DD in your packaging group) to sponsor a new upload of the 1.4.3 package which should fix a build problem on hppa so that the 1.4.3 packages can migrate to testing before the freeze. The packages an backports.org are nearly all backports from the version currently in Debian/testing. ATM this is 1.4.2 as stated above. You can track the versions here: http://packages.debian.org/lyx http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lyx.html All versions support the qt and xforms frontend[1]. Cheers, Sven [1] Guess I shouldn't talk about dead things but you can even build the (unsupported) gtk frontend with minimal changes. -- If you won't forgive me the rest of my life Let me apologize while I'm still alive I know it's time to face all of my past mistakes [Less than Jake - Rest Of My Life]
