LyX 2.3.7 Released

Richard Kimberly Heck rikiheck at gmail.com
Sat Jan 7 22:34:50 UTC 2023


On 1/7/23 13:17, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jan 2023, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
>
>> We are proud to announce the release of LyX 2.3.7. This is the seventh
>> maintenance release in the 2.3.x series. We encourage all users to 
>> upgrade
>> to this version.
>>
>> You can download LyX 2.3.7 from https://www.lyx.org/Download/.
>
> Richard, et al.:
>
> The lyx.SlackBuild script has always worked just fine building new 
> versions.
> Until today. I downloaded lyx-2.3.7-1.tar.xz and modified 
> lyx.SlackBuild for
> that version number.
>
> Running `lyx.SlackBuild` throws and error:
> ./lyx.SlackBuild: line 46: cd: lyx-2.3.7-1: No such file or directory
>
> That line is:
> cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION
>
> which should be found in /tmp/SBo/lyx-2.3.7-1, but the directory is
> /tmp/SBo/lyx-2.3.7. The contents of this directory look complete.
>
> All prior minor patch versions used a dot rather than a dash for 
> separation.
> I changed both the program name and the version in the build file to 
> 2.3.7.1
> but that made no difference.

Can you just change the tarball name to lyx-2.3.7.tar.xz?

Riki




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