I compiled 1.4.3 from source using the Debian infrastructure (Debian
testing has 1.4.3) on the latest 64bit Ubuntu (edgy). Works great.
Compile was easy.
Richard Kleeman
John B. Egger wrote:
Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 16. November 2006 17:00 schrieb Steve Litt:
Hi all,
If LyX is important to you, do NOT use Mandriva 2007 X64 (the 64 bit
version). It comes without LyX, xforms, libXpm, and the necessary qt to
compile LyX. After going through three or four levels of dependency, and
not finding compatible source code, I erased the disk and installed
Mandriva 2007 i586, the 32 bit version, which DOES have Lyx as a
package.
Could those of you who have successfully implemented the Lyx 1.4.2 or
.3 in your Linux distribution tell so (and give some hints if their
were minor or major difficulties how to avoid them)? It would help
those people like me who use LyX as the main tool to choose a suitable
distr and not fiddle around with the current one. I for instance try
so far unsuccessfully to implement Lyx 1.4.3 in my (Debian) Kanotix
2006. There are dependencies on other packages which I with my low
PC-IQ am not able to solve so far.
Wolfgang
I'm a total LyX novice, but 1.4.3 seems to be running OK on my Xandros
4.0 Linux system. It's also Debian-based. As another thread noted, I had
some trouble with LyX not locating libz (and/or Zlib) but I went ahead
anyway. I'm not sure what libz/Zlib does, so I don't know if there's
still a problem, but everything I've tried to do with 1.4.3 (just open
and edit documents and insert figures, footnotes, marginal notes, etc.,
and view in dvi and pdf) has worked.
