Thanks, Riki, I've built LyX in the past but it's been years! (Have recently returned to Linux after many years on OS X/macOS.) Offer of help appreciated. 2.3.0-1 is currently fine, but will endeavor to build it myself as soon as it seems at all necessary or advantageous.
-chris On Mon, Oct 1, 2018, 1:36 PM Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@lyx.org> wrote: > On 10/1/18 1:12 PM, Chris Menzel wrote: > > Dear selfless and heroic LyX developers, > > I have noticed that the most recent version of LyX for Ubuntu is 2.3.0-1 > and (according to the PPA > <https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/ubuntu/release>) that version > was uploaded last March. I'm just wondering if this indicates that > maintenance of the Ubuntu port is stalled or if (as I suspect) other > obligations are (understandably) simply not allowing the maintainer time to > compile and package up the latest version. > > Liviu Andronic has provided a PPA for LyX for a while now, but I haven't > seen him on the list for a little while. > > Note that it is pretty easy to build LyX yourself on Linux. I can give > instructions if you need them. The main thing is just getting the build > dependencies installed. I think "apt-get build-deps lyx" will do that, > though I'm not sure if that gives you Qt4 or Qt5. > > RKH > > >
