On 05/07/2014 12:21 PM, Corrado Mencar wrote:
Dear Lyx users,
I recently passed to Debian (wheezy - testing) from a Ubuntu
machine where I installed Lyx 2.1. To my great surprise, I found that
the current Lyx version supported in Debian is v2.0.6 because the
package seems no more maintained since last summer (see
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/lyx.html).
Unfortunately, as you may know, Lyx 2.1 generates lyx files that
are incompatible with Lyx 2.0.6. There is the export function but it
is not convenient when you work collaboratively with peers that use
Lyx 2.1 (that is my case).
If you wish, you can download the lyx2lyx conversion files from
http://tinyurl.com/pjxcbfg and replace the ones you currently have
installed. Then 2.0.6 can read 2.1 files. But there will be a back and
forth conversion that may make this less than ideal
Apart from asking colleagues to downgrade to Lyx 2.0.x (with
subsequent complaints) is there any workaround to install Lyx 2.1 in
Debian?
Of course: Compile it yourself. This is not hard to do.
Richard
