Hi Alex, Thanks so much for your help. I was able to downgrade to lyx-x11 1.6.10-45 using the older .deb file, without any trouble at all.
Cheers, Matt On 20 Sep 2014, at 04:10, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 9/16/14, 9:10 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> On 9/16/14, 8:31 PM, Matthew Parry wrote: >>> >>> Hi Alex, >>> >>> I guess I missed the memo on 10.6! >>> >>> I will have the lyx .deb and .info files floating around on a backup; >>> can I use those to recompile an older version of lyx? >>> >>> Best, >>> >>> Matt >>> >> >> Yeah, official support stopped on June 4. >> >> The last update to lyx* was to switch to newer boost libraries. The >> error that you're seeing suggests that maybe these weren't appropriate >> on 10.6. I don't recall if I did any separate testing on 10.6 or just >> assumed that the update would work, and if I did do any testing it was >> just a build test without a run-time check. >> >> If you've got an older .deb you can install that via >> >> sudo dpkg -i /path/to/lyx-x11_<version-revision>_<architecture>.deb >> >> To build from an older .info, the safest option is to put the file in >> /sw/fink/10.4/local/main/finkinfo, verify that local/main appears in the >> Trees: line of /sw/etc/fink.conf, and then use >> >> fink install lyx-x11-<version-revision> >> >> to install that version-revision of lyx-x11 >> > > Following up: I tried it on 10.7, with no runtime error. > > -- > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. > Fink User Liaison > My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Slashdot TV. Video for Nerds. Stuff that Matters. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=160591471&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
