Dear LyX Users and Developers,
I wanted to provide a bit of an update to my adventures with Ubuntu
packaging (insofar as they are related to LyX).
I've spoken with the Ubuntu developers, and they have granted our
request to include 1.6.7 in the next version of Ubuntu (Maverick
Meerkat, 10.10). Packages have been compiled and are available from
Launchpad as of this moment (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx).
For users of Lucid Lynx (10.04) who would like to upgrade, I have
created a PPA that you can use
(https://launchpad.net/~lyx-outline-devel/+archive/lyx-stable). To
update, use the following commands from the terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lyx-outline-devel/lyx-stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
This will add the repository to your list of software sources and then
update any software you have installed. If you have any problems,
please let me know.
Cheers,
Rob
PS, if there is interest from the developer/user community, I would also
be happy to create a PPA for the latest alpha of LyX 2 (or we on the
betas yet?). To prevent it from destroying your system, though, I would
need to patch the packaging files and inertia prevents me from doing so
unless there is interest.
