On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 10:15 AM, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> wrote: > On Saturday, July 09, 2011 03:35:24 AM Liviu Andronic wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Steve Litt >> > What am I doing wrong? >> >> Ubuntu ships the wrong version. See this recent discussion [1][2]. >> See these instructions [3] on how to push the update to your >> system (never tried it). Alternatively, Rainer and Rob have come >> up with a PPA containing LyX 2.0.0. Contact me off-list for the >> link. >> >> Regards >> Liviu > > LyX is probably the #2 most important application in my business > (VimOutliner is #1). It's important enough that I'm willing to compile > my own, > The SRU solution above (link [3]) seems easy to deploy..
> always assuming that there's a 2.x version that compiles well > on Ubuntu 11.04. What do you think is the best, most solid, most > tested LyX 2.x right now? > Probably the only one available, 2.0.0. I've compiled this version on 10.04 without any issues. > Probably over half the time from 2001 til now my LyX was self-compiled > rather than package installed. > ..but if you're OK with building, this should be straightforward: apt-get build-dep lyx ./configure --with-version-suffix=-svn --enable-build-type=release make make install You may freely omit '--with-version-suffix=-svn', but then make sure to uninstall the LyX shipped by Ubuntu. If you need spelling support, I would also check that libaspell-dev, libhunspell-dev and libenchant-dev are installed. Regards Liviu
