On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Andrew Corrigan wrote:
In case this is helpful to someone, I made an ubuntu package with checkinstall, in other words it doesn't take care of dependencies or uninstalling an old version or anything like that, it just saves you the trouble of running configure and make and allows you to uninstall lyx via synaptic when you want to. it gets installed to /usr/local since the configure was:
Andrew, I've been building Slackware packages of LyX using checkinstall and it works perfectly. The package is registered in /var/log/packages and I use the package tools (upgradepkg ...) to handle removing the older version before installing the newer one. If LyX runs on your current system then there are no unresolved dependencies that could cause problems. Checkinstall is a great tool; I used to use it with Red Hat < 7.3 and since then with Slackware. Of course it will work with Debian and its offspring, too. :-) Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | The Environmental Permitting Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc.(TM) | Accelerator <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
