On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 17:56 +0000, Graham Smith wrote: > Has anyone installed 1.6 on Ubuntu 8.04? Its available for Jaunty (as > pointed out elsewhere on this forum), but not sure of the risks that may > be involved. > Yes I did successfully install 1.6 from source. I just follow from this thread http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg65444.html
> I currently have 1.5.5 installed via the Ubuntu repository, should I > uninstall this before installing 1.6, or is it a bad idea to install 1.6 > before its officially available for 8.04. No i did not uninstall the version 1.5.5 as I am still using it for a reason. It works parallel with version 1.6 I use the following commands after downloading the source 1.6 ./configure --with-version-suffix=-1.6.0 make sudo make install > > I am new to Linux, and still finding my feet with it. > > Thanks for any advice. > > Graham >
