Rob Oakes wrote: > I wanted to provide a bit of an update to my adventures with Ubuntu packaging > (insofar as they are related to LyX).
> I've spoken with the Ubuntu developers, and they have granted our request to > include 1.6.7 in the next version of Ubuntu (Maverick Meerkat, 10.10). > Packages have been compiled and are available from Launchpad as of this > moment (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx). > For users of Lucid Lynx (10.04) who would like to upgrade, I have created a > PPA that you can use > (https://launchpad.net/~lyx-outline-devel/+archive/lyx-stable). Thanks! That is very good news. Moreover, a lyx-1.6.7 deb package is available on getdeb repos from 2010-07-23, http://www.getdeb.net/software/LyX > PS, if there is interest from the developer/user community, I would also be > happy to create a PPA for the latest alpha of LyX 2 (or we on the betas > yet?). To prevent it from destroying your system, though, I would need to > patch the packaging files and inertia prevents me from doing so unless there > is interest. I am used to compile the alpha releases, but I think that it would be very useful, always provided both the stable and the devel releases are fully independently operational. Thanks and regards Ignacio García
