Xubuntu 20.04: Qt Library

John White john at whitelawchartered.com
Sat Dec 12 23:39:45 UTC 2020


Thanks to all.  As I have 5 employees who also use lyx (we run a Gates-free 
office) and we edit each other's documents, I think it best to await the next 
release of Debian - even if I miss a few goodies in the interim.

John

On Saturday, December 12, 2020 2:47:28 PM PST Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
> I would try the PPA on a testsystem before changing in production, in your
> situation. That would then update with the usual “apt update”.
> 
> I like bleeding edge, tip of the spear, crack of my ass, to quote... but use
> homebrew on the mac so as to not have to do anything manually which is
> difficult to keep track...
> 
> el
> 
>> Sent from Dr Lisse’s iPhone
> 
> On 12 Dec 2020, 23:47 +0200, Richard Kimberly Heck <rikiheck at lyx.org>, 
wrote:
> > 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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