On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Gustavo Goretkin <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:41 AM, Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Gustavo, >> >> Please respond to the list (it is much more knowledgeable than I). See >> my response below. > > > The personal reply was a mistake. Sorry and thanks for including the list > again!
No problem. I often do the same thing accidentally. > >> >> >> On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Gustavo Goretkin >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Fri, Nov 9, 2012 at 2:25 AM, Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> You might want to install the latest Ubuntu version through the PPA. >> >> That should take care of all of the dependencies automatically. Liviu >> >> and Rob have a PPA set up with the latest stable and unstable builds: >> >> https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/daily >> >> Ask if you need more instructions. >> >> >> > As far as I can tell, I've added the PPA by doing: >> > $ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lyx-devel/daily >> > $ sudo apt-get update >> > >> > but then >> > >> > $ sudo apt-get install lyx >> >> This should be >> sudo apt-get install lyx2.0 >> (the PPA does not want to overwrite your current LyX version. If you >> don't want the other lyx package, then just remove it) >> The lyx2.0 package will become 2.0.5 shortly. >> If you want more cutting edge (but perhaps more bugs), you can do >> sudo apt-get install lyx2.1 > > > Thank you for the help. I would like to use my previous preferences and > configuration. Can I just alias ~/lyx2.0 to ~/lyx ? Good question. You mean ~/.lyx2.0 to ~/.lyx right? I think that should work because across minor versions I don't think LyX makes format changes. However, if you install lyx2.1 and then link ~.lyx2.1 to ~/.lyx you will undoubtedly run into trouble if you try to run lyx after running lyx2.1. Another source of trouble is if you run lyx and lyx2.0 at the same time. The above discussion only applies if you plan on running the previous LyX version again. For example, if you only want to run lyx2.0 and no longer want to run lyx, linking should work fine, but in that case you could also just remove .lyx2.0 and rename .lyx to .lyx2.0. As always, back up everything before trying anything. Just to confirm, installing lyx2.0 from the PPA did indeed solve the previous error? Scott >> >> >> Scott >> >> > >> > Reading package lists... Done >> > Building dependency tree >> > Reading state information... Done >> > lyx is already the newest version. >> > >> > >> > I also tried running dist-upgrade without success. >> > >> >> >> >> Scott >> >> >> > > >
