For those looking for an easy way to port between releases of ubuntu and debian, try looking into pbuilder. It's a nice set of scripts that creates a build environment in which it installs all the build-deps, then builds the package in that. The resulting binary packages can then be installed into your system.
What it means is that you can build from source without filling up your install with build dependencies. Further, because you're installing using the package management system, you can easily upgrade when newer packages come out from debian/ubuntu. For people into packaging, pbuilder is handy because it implicitly tests whether you got the build-deps right in your control file. Cam. Typhoon wrote: > FYI > > I have just compiled the new 1.6 on a Debian Lenny system and it went > flawlessly. > > # apt-get build-dep lyx > > Then the usual ./configure, make, make install. > > It looks great! Thanks to all concerned. > > Alan
