On Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:48:53 +0100 Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Steve Litt [clip] > > On the other hand, Debian's more likely to > > have a *working* LyX :-) > > > This is hopefully changing. Now we have a PPA containing up-to-date > releases of LyX. [1] I will announce it on the list shortly. (The PPA > is still considered 'experimental' until more people test it and > provide positive feedback. Please do backups.) > > Liviu > > [1] https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/release Liviu, You should shout this from the rooftops. This should be on the LyX Wiki's home page in +3 bold typesize. If this Personal Package Archive (PPA) actually yields working LyXes, it changes everything. From my perspective, a working PPA means no more stains on my desk from the tears that I shed trying to ./configure;make;make install and getting slapped down by dependencies at every turn. A working PPA means an end to the annual pilgrimages to Xforms' gravestone, upon which I placed flowers and mourned the hours lost to a particularly bad Qt4 dependency way back in the early 1.6.x's. All this could mean I regularly have a modern and working LyX. Maybe some day the PPA could encompass Red Hat and other types of packages. This is really cool. Thank you! SteveT
