Dear Oisin, Thank you, it surely helps!
Actually the first thing I tried was to find a .rpm for LyX 1.5.3 for Fedora 8, but from another computer running XP (I used Google) as it will take me few more days to connect the laptop to internet. I did find some .rpm's but for LyX 1.4.. and Fedora 6, so I assumed that it is not on yet. What can I say... rookie performance. When it comes to updating to LyX 1.6, I will use the package manager. Best regards, Milen -----Original Message----- From: Oisin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 15, 2008 4:24 PM To: Milen Ivanov Cc: lyx-users@lists.lyx.org Subject: Re: LyX install on Fedora On Jan 15, 2008 6:54 AM, Milen Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > > > Just a note for Linux rookies like me who might want the latest version > of LyX. > > > > Unfortunately the recent discussion on Linux distributions came just few > days too late for me. I chose Fedora 8 (Gnome) for my laptop because The results of that are now a bit out of date as Fedora 8 has the latest Lyx (1.5.3), so as Neal Becker points out below all you need to do is to install the latest available package. The advantages of using a package-based distro (whether it's rpm based (e.g. Fedora, Mandriva, SuSE) or deb based (e.g. Debian, Ubuntu) is that removing/upgrading the program (and all it's dependent parts) is much cleaner and easier. It also allows you to benefit from the experience of someone who has made it their specialty and expertise to figure out exactly how the upstream source can be best integrated with the rest of the distribution. There is some excellent documentation available on software management in Fedora here: http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/en/ HTH, Oisin Feeley