On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 08:07:00AM -0700, Kayvan A. Sylvan wrote:
> On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 03:21:34PM +0200, Paul Seelig wrote:
> > To tell the truth, i even don't really use LyX myself, maybe just a
> > few times a year. I feel more comfortable with AUCTeX on any kind of
> > (X)Emacs and actually only compile the unofficial .deb because i like
> > LyX so much, that i want others to be able to just drop in a mostly up
> > to date release. LyX is just too great to be ignored... ;-)
> >
> > Thanks for the feedback, P. *8^)
>
> Is there an rpm2deb utility somewhere? Maybe the Redhat RPM could
> work as a base for the debian package?
Yes, it's trivial enough to install LyX using alien. There is little
advantage to that over a source compile, though: debian packaging is
as much about integration with the rest of the system as it is about
providing binaries.
Jules
