On 12/12/20 5:47 AM, Hartmut Haase wrote: > Hi Richard, >> I'm a little puzzled why you would need that. LyX uses Qt, yes, but > if I install LyX from the distribution it is about 9 month older than > the last release. Because this one does not have binaries for all > distributions, I use to compile myself. Therefore I need the Qt library > files. > The error message is > checking for Qt library name... failed > configure: error: cannot compile a simple Qt executable. Check you > have the
As Kornel said, you may be missing the Qt header files. So you need to install something like qt-devel. Note that, by default, the 2.3.x series uses Qt 4 (this will change with 2.4.0, though Qt will still be usable). So, even if you have the Qt 5 devel packages, that may fail, unless you configure with --enable-qt5. You can also install the Qt4 devel packages and not use that flag. I believe you should be able to do "sudo apt-get build-dep lyx" to install the build dependencies. I don't know whether those would be for Qt 4 or Qt 5, so you may have to experiment. Riki -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org http://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
