While in the process of trying to add things like Qt4 to my Slack 12 system I managed to mung my ability to send outgoing mail. I reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems. So among other things I am giving up on Lyx. More to the point, I am giving up on recommending Lyx to TEX newbies. If someone can cite a version of Lyx that runs without tears on the latest stable version of Slack (12) then I may give it a try again.
There seems to be a virus infecting developers all over the net that compels them to use the newest tools even though the newest tools are not widely available. Qt 4 is the most notable of these attractive nuisances. True, I can install a Kubuntu 4 partition and get KDE 4 which uses Qt4. But Koffice and a host of other things don't work with KDE 4. Besides, I don't like Debian. I am writing this via my online mailbox attached to my webpage. Trust me it is a helluva way to do my daily work. John Culleton TeX since 1995. __________________________________________________ D O T E A S Y - "Join the web hosting revolution!" http://www.doteasy.com