Ann: my LyX PPA for Ubuntu

[Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni]

Hello,

thanks for the appreciation.

To answer the questions, after adding the PPA it is necessary to select 
the package among those listed in the PPA description. They can coexist 
including with distribution version. They have different build suffixes 
and thus config directory. The stable one is lyx-2.5 with config 
directory ~/.lyx-2.5. Simply adding the PPA should not result in 
altering the existing installation.

Guillaume

Le 22/05/2026 à 21:58, Maria Gouskova via lyx-users a écrit :
> On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 2:57 PM Scott Kostyshak via lyx-users <lyx- 
> users at lists.lyx.org <mailto:lyx-users at lists.lyx.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 08:40:03AM -0400, Richard Kleeman via lyx-
>     users wrote:
>      > On 5/17/26 4:12 PM, Guillaume Munch-Maccagnoni via lyx-users wrote:
>      > > Bonjour,
>      > >
>      > > This message concerns people who are using a Linux distribution
>     based on
>      > > Debian (such as Ubuntu), and who used to keep their LyX version
>     up to
>      > > date thanks to the official package archive.
>      > >
>      > > Cheers,
>      > >
>      > > Guillaume
>      > >
>      > Hi Guillame,
>      >
>      > Thanks for this great new resource. One quick question at a "nuts
>     and bolts"
>      > level: You have 3 different releases supported (2 devs and one
>     "stable"). I
>      > If add your ppa how does apt make a choice as to which to
>     install? I would
>      > prefer to use the "stable" version...
> 
>     I think it is determined by which package name you install. If you want
>     stable, I think (maybe wait for someone else to confirm), you want to
>     install the following:
> 
>        lyx-2.5
> 
> 
> I added the PPA and updated, and I don't think I had to do anything 
> special--whatever was in the official Ubuntu repo (some release 
> candidate circa 2.4.0?) got updated to 2.5.1. I did have to change some 
> home directory .lyx stuff, but that was so easy compared to building LyX 
> from source/updating QT/etc.
> 
> Thanks, Guillaume, for making this!
> 
> Maria
> 
>     Scott
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