On Wed, Aug 03, 2016 at 08:41:08AM +0200, Liviu Andronic wrote: > On Sun, Jul 31, 2016 at 5:57 AM, Scott Kostyshak <skost...@lyx.org> wrote: > > An edit was made to the LyXOnUbuntu page: > > > > http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu?action=diff#diff1469928065 > > > > The user "JH" had a problem when using the Ubuntu PPA and changed the > > wiki page to suggest that users remove the default repo lyx package > > before using the PPA. Is this indeed the correct advice? I think that > > should not be necessary, but I've seen a couple of issues regarding > > upgrading LyX versions on Ubuntu, so I'm not sure. > > > > It might be, but I'm not sure. Sometimes there are minor > incompatibilities between packages (e.g. 'lyx-common' from default > repos containing icons that the PPA packages contain in 'lyx', though > I speak from memory), in which case it's indeed a good idea to first > remove the Ubuntu lyx packages and then install the PPA ones.
OK let's leave it then. > Either > way, I don't think this additional step is much of an issue, and if > you don't you'll fix your system quickly enough in any case. True, I was just hoping that the user would report what might be a bug so we could fix it. Scott
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