Compiling LyX in debian buster

[Richard Kimberly Heck]

On 4/16/20 2:52 PM, John White wrote:
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> On Thursday, April 16, 2020 9:42:38 AM PDT F M Salter wrote:
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> > Hi
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> > Pavel Sanda
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> <https://www.mail-archive.com/search?l=lyx-users@lists.lyx.org&q=from:%22Pav
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> > el+Sanda%22> Thu, 16 Apr 2020 07:04:04 -0700
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> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 02:24:32PM +0100, F M Salter wrote:
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> > > I have tried every combination of configuration parameters from the
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> > > simplest to the most complete without success.
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> > So you did
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> > apt-get build-dep lyx
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> > to start with, right?
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> > Pavel
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> > Pavel,
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> > You were absolutely correct. I had not done that. Doing that solved
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> > all my problems. Thank you very much.
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> > Regards
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> > Frank Salter
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> I have marked this email as important as I might need it in the future.
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> I have used lyx for many years and like Charlie just go to the Debian
> (currently Buster) repository and download it (currently repository
> has 2.3.2-1). Works fine with texlive. However I keep hearing that the
> QT people's efforts to monetize QT may start to give lyx problems.
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The problem would be that the version of Qt that Debian or Fedora or
whatever has (and what we can link into the Windows binary, etc) would
lag behind what's available to paying customers and so would not have
the latest bug fixes, etc. That's not ideal, but it's not catastrophic
either.

Riki

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