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The results of that are now a bit out of date as Fedora 8 has the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

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