On Tuesday 24 March 2009 13:39:00 Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Since there seems to be no deb package of lyx 1.6.2 yet for debian, I > wonder whether somebody has used the alien prg for the SuSe rpm package. Is > it recommendable or better to use the source code? > > Wolfgang
If it makes any difference, I found 1.6.x the easiest LyX build I have ever done when I did it on Ubuntu 8.10. I added LyX 1.5.x, using the package manager and then just did ./configure make sudo make install on the 1.6.x source code. The one thing I had to add was a dev package for aspell. -- http://www.unmusic.co.uk/ Michael Reed -- technology, gender, and geek culture freelance writer. Buy my article compilation book, Tech Book 1.
