On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Steve Litt <[email protected]> wrote:
>> [1] https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/release
>
> You should shout this from the rooftops. This should be on the LyX
> Wiki's home page in +3 bold typesize. If this Personal Package Archive
> (PPA) actually yields working LyXes, it changes everything.
>
I am doing my best. In any case, the packaging 'debian' dir is taken
from Maverick and slightly tweaked to account for (some) changes in
packaging in Oneiric.


> From my perspective, a working PPA means no more stains on my
> desk from the tears that I shed trying to ./configure;make;make install
> and getting slapped down by dependencies at every turn. A working PPA
> means an end to the annual pilgrimages to Xforms' gravestone, upon
> which I placed flowers and mourned the hours lost to a particularly bad
> Qt4 dependency way back in the early 1.6.x's.
>
I am glad if this can change your life (and spare you some flower expenses). :)


> All this could mean I regularly have a modern and working LyX.
>
Please let me know how it works for you. Cheers
Liviu



> Maybe some day the PPA could encompass Red Hat and other types of
> packages. This is really cool. Thank you!
>
> SteveT



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