On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 03:27:28PM -0800, JOHN CULLETON wrote: > While in the process of trying to add things like Qt4 to my Slack 12 > system I managed to mung my ability to send outgoing mail.
Surely Qt ate your outgoing mail. There's no way that this could be case of PEBKAC. Earth is flat, pigs can fly. > reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems. So among > other things I am giving up on Lyx. More to the point, I am giving up > on recommending Lyx to TEX newbies. If someone can cite a version of > Lyx that runs without tears on the latest stable version of Slack (12) > then I may give it a try again. Funny, chosing a do-it-yourself distro and not being able to compile a single package does not go well together in my opinion. But then, I am known for having strange opinions... I am sure in the next mail I'll read today someone will complain aboit not being able to find a C++ compiler for his Commodore 64 and require us to re-write LyX in 6502 assembler. > There seems to be a virus infecting developers all over the net that > compels them to use the newest tools even though the newest tools are > not widely available. Qt 4 is the most notable of these attractive > nuisances. True, I can install a Kubuntu 4 partition and get KDE 4 > which uses Qt4. But Koffice and a host of other things don't work with > KDE 4. Besides, I don't like Debian. Qt 4 works on Kubuntu _without_ KDE 4. And it has been out there for more than two years. In fact it works even on Slackware 12, at least that's what a quick search with google makes me believe. Andre'
