How can I run LyX 2.4.0 on Ubuntu 30.04 ?

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 09:49:01PM GMT, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> On Fri, May 31, 2024 at 03:14:38PM -0400, Scott Kostyshak wrote:
> > I don't know anything about containers but I want to learn. From what I understand of your description, the docker image you started with was a docker image of very old debian and, it had nothing to do specifically with LyX. Is that correct?
> 
> Right. There is plenty of various docker images on dockerhub with many
> different OSes. I would pay attention to the source of the image and would not
> run it on sensitive computer, malware can be present ;) 
> 
> And if you actually want to run with GUI, things might get more complex to get
> X forwarding right.

Thanks, this is all very helpful. Another question: for "build-dep lyx", the image will need to download packages from a repository. But for old Debian, are there still repositories that have the right packages for it?

Scott
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