Xubuntu 20.04: Qt Library

Richard Kimberly Heck rikiheck at lyx.org
Sat Dec 12 21:46:57 UTC 2020


On 12/12/20 4:18 PM, John White wrote:
> This sounds like an excellent way to keep lyx up to date, but I am clueless
> about alternative repositories.  If they require github, I'm not interested.
> Lyx 2.3.2 ships with Debian Buster and it works fine for my purposes.  I have
> learned that adding software versions not in the Buster repository sometimes
> causes problems.  So I will probably keep using 2.3.2 until next summer or so
> when, I expect, Debian should come out with a new version.

It's really quite easy to build LyX yourself. You don't need git (let 
alone github). You can just download the source that we release. Then 
it's the usual method:

# tar -zxvf lyx-2.3.6.tar.gz
# cd lyx-2.3.6
# ./configure

Add --enable-qt5 there if you want to use qt5

# make
# sudo make install

To get the dependencies needed for the build, you should be able to do:

# sudo apt-get build-deps lyx

There's also a PPA for Ubuntu. I don't know if it works with Debian.

Riki


>
> Best,
>
> John
>
> On Saturday, December 12, 2020 7:42:23 AM PST Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
>> Hartmut,
>>
>> would a better approach not be an alternative repository from which the
>> package manager then can install the latest DEB?
>>
>> el
>>
>> On 2020-12-12 12:47 , Hartmut Haase wrote:
>>> Hi Richard,
>>>
>>>> I'm a little puzzled why you would need that. LyX uses Qt, yes, but
>>> if I install LyX from the distribution it is about 9 month older than
>>> the last release. Because this one does not have binaries for all
>>> distributions, I use to compile myself. Therefore I need the Qt library
>>> files.
>>> The error message is
>>> checking for Qt library name... failed
>>> configure: error: cannot compile a simple Qt executable. Check you have
>>> the
>
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