Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-20 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello Rob On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Rob Oakes rob.oa...@oak-tree.us wrote: 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

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-20 Thread Liviu Andronic
Hello Rob On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Rob Oakes wrote: > 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,

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-18 Thread Manveru
2010/8/17 Pavel Sanda sa...@lyx.org: Rob Oakes wrote:  Dear LyX Users and Developers, firstly, thanks to care about ubuntu repos. the most frequent bug report is the combination of lyx 1.6.5 qt-4.6 in lynx; dont know if buntu's policies permit this but it would be great if all buntu users

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-18 Thread Richard Kleeman
Just updated as well with Lucid. Works well. Thanks for the ppa. On 08/17/2010 11:45 AM, Rob Oakes wrote: Dear LyX Users and Developers, 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,

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-18 Thread Manveru
2010/8/17 Pavel Sanda : > Rob Oakes wrote: >>  Dear LyX Users and Developers, > > firstly, thanks to care about ubuntu repos. the most frequent bug report > is the combination of lyx 1.6.5 & qt-4.6 in lynx; dont know if buntu's > policies permit this but it would be great if all

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-18 Thread Richard Kleeman
Just updated as well with Lucid. Works well. Thanks for the ppa. On 08/17/2010 11:45 AM, Rob Oakes wrote: Dear LyX Users and Developers, 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,

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
Rob Oakes wrote: Dear LyX Users and Developers, firstly, thanks to care about ubuntu repos. the most frequent bug report is the combination of lyx 1.6.5 qt-4.6 in lynx; dont know if buntu's policies permit this but it would be great if all buntu users got 1.6.7 automatically updated through

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-17 Thread Rob Oakes
I'll look into it and see if I can get them included for current users of Ubuntu. Based on what I've read, I'm not sure it's very likely, though :( But it never hurts to ask. Other users can upgrade using the PPA I set up this morning and the instructions in the original email. Once a user

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
Rob Oakes wrote: I'll look into it and see if I can get them included for current users of Ubuntu. Based on what I've read, I'm not sure it's very likely, though :( But it never hurts to ask. you can argue by the fact that this is no update, but rather bugfix of very unstable package

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-17 Thread Rob Oakes
I'll see what I can do. Those are both strong points. Fortunately, the next version of Ubuntu (due in October) will ship with the latest version of LyX. I've also created the packages on Launchpad, so I think it's just a matter of getting them incorporated. On Aug 17, 2010, at 1:00 PM,

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-17 Thread Paul Rubin
Just installed 1.6.7 on my laptop (Mint Isadora/Ubuntu Lucid). Many thanks! /Paul

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
Rob Oakes wrote: > Dear LyX Users and Developers, firstly, thanks to care about ubuntu repos. the most frequent bug report is the combination of lyx 1.6.5 & qt-4.6 in lynx; dont know if buntu's policies permit this but it would be great if all buntu users got 1.6.7 automatically updated through

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-17 Thread Rob Oakes
I'll look into it and see if I can get them included for current users of Ubuntu. Based on what I've read, I'm not sure it's very likely, though :( But it never hurts to ask. Other users can upgrade using the PPA I set up this morning and the instructions in the original email. Once a user

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-17 Thread Pavel Sanda
Rob Oakes wrote: > I'll look into it and see if I can get them included for current users of > Ubuntu. Based on what I've read, I'm not sure it's very likely, though :( > But it never hurts to ask. you can argue by the fact that this is no update, but rather bugfix of very unstable package

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-17 Thread Rob Oakes
I'll see what I can do. Those are both strong points. Fortunately, the next version of Ubuntu (due in October) will ship with the latest version of LyX. I've also created the packages on Launchpad, so I think it's just a matter of getting them incorporated. On Aug 17, 2010, at 1:00 PM,

Re: LyX 1.6.7 Packages for Ubuntu

2010-08-17 Thread Paul Rubin
Just installed 1.6.7 on my laptop (Mint Isadora/Ubuntu Lucid). Many thanks! /Paul