On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:25:30 +0100 Hellmut Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > I'm working on an IBM Lenovo ThinkPad T60 with gentoo-Linux + KDE-3.5.6 > + tetex-3.0_p1-r3 > > I'm still using LyX-1.3.7 because of the problems I have with some > special characters like å, ç, accented Letters etc. in LyX-1.4.x. > > Some Questions: > * Can I install LyX-1.5.0beta1 in parallel to LyX-1.3.7? (generating > manually from the sources probably) this might do it: ./configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt4 --enable-optimization=-O3 --prefix=/usr/local --with-version-suffix=1.5.0b1 Read the INSTALL to get details on how to configure the flags for your purposes. Or you may wish to do this in a chroot to be sure it behaves! > > * Is there a converter from the LyX file format 1.3.7 to 1.5.0. > (Looking at them with vi there are some obvious differences...) not sure > > * Is Qt4 needed for LyX-1.5.0? I believe so. When run, configure looked for this, and said "not found". And when I installed qt4, it went perfectly. HTH - R >