On 5/1/21 7:43 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
Hi all,
I use Void Linux and am not satisfied with their LyX package, because
it apparently contains hard links to the 2020 TeXLive, which of course
is giving me errors. I'd prefer to handle my LyX and TeXLive myself,
without Linux distribution packages.
Are there any special gotchas I should know about ./configure;make;make
install that might mess me up?
None that I know of, though of course you'll need the dependencies. The
big one is Qt, and you can choose between Qt 4.x and Qt 5.x. If you use
the latter, you'll need the switch --enable-qt5.
Where should I procure the latest *stable* LyX --- I don't want to download the
latest Git thing that
will change tomorrow.
Check the LyX download page. There are links to the source tarballs. You
could also use git and just checkout the 2.3.6 tag, from which the
tarballs were built. I myself generally use the 2.3.x branch from git.
It's the 'stable' branch, what will become 2.3.7, and generally contains
only bug fixes. If I'm doing my job right, it will always be as stable
as its name implies. I confess that that sometimes isn't true!
Here:
http://ftp.lyx.org/ftp/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.4/
you can also find the alpha releases of 2.4.0. There are MANY big
improvements, and so far we have had no bad bug reports from alpha3.
(Hence, beta1 will go out as soon as I can find the time.)
Riki
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