N. nibbled, > Jim Foltz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I don't want to run the unstable tree at this time, thanks. I'll just > > compile it myself.
> You could still get the unstable source packages and build the deb > from them. Now I really wish I could figure out the damn details as > to how to do this. Any one care to explain? I'm lost in a maze of > manpages all alike. > [dpkg-source -x? dpkg-buildpackage -b? dpkg-deb?? Red Hat makes this > so easy it's not funny.] I've never had much luck with building packages, but I build lyx from source rather regularly. You need xforms-dev and libxpm-dev on your system. just undo the tarball, connnect to the directory, and ./configure --prefix=/usr/local The --prefix generally isn't necessary, as it is the default, but if the scribt finds evidence of a prior lyx on the system, it tries to put it in the same place, which doesn't work well for debian due to different assumptions about the file system (we think :). (there's a bug that noone's had the time to track down). Besides, if you complie it yourself, you can have mail-merge :) Or I could just send you a binary to untar if you want. rick --
