Sven Hoexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sam please don't take it as an offense but I'd highly recommend to not > use those checkinstall packages for Debian/etch. The same reasoning > apply for Ubuntu so you might want to read on as an Ubuntu user > aswell. Hi Sven,
Thank you for your concern! To clarify these are not official packages, but made available by me for other LyX users, on debian-based distros, who don't want to wait until official releases included these versions. I've provided packages for several years and there have been no complaints. They are built on non-modified releases of etch and dapper and by reading the README file (that are also uploaded) one gets a good idea about build dependencies. If 1.5.3 is is already available on backports.org that's great, and my packages are not be needed then. If not, than responsible users might choose to uses these. > One backdraw is that you're forced to migrate to texlive from tetex > if you're still using tetex. This will happen with lenny anyway but > it will force you to download a few hundred MiB of texlive packages > along with the new LyX and boost packages. There are no tex-distro decencies set on my packages, one can uses whatever one likes. Indeed, I thought, it was in the very spirit of LyX, that some users provide there binaries for other users without predefining every interacting software. Cheers, Sam -- etch: Build information: ./configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt4 --enable-optimization=-O3 --prefix=/us r/local Configuration Host type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Special build flags: pch use-aspell use-ispell C Compiler: gcc C Compiler LyX flags: C Compiler flags: -O3 C++ Compiler: g++ (4.1.2) C++ Compiler LyX flags: C++ Compiler flags: -O3 Linker flags: Linker user flags: Qt 4 Frontend: Qt 4 version: 4.2.1 Packaging: posix LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin LyX files dir: /usr/local/share/lyx make sudo checkinstall make install-strip dapper: Build information: ./configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt4 --enable-optimization=-O3 --prefix=/usr/local Configuration Host type: i586-pc-linux-gnu Special build flags: aiksaurus pch use-aspell use-ispell C Compiler: gcc C Compiler LyX flags: C Compiler flags: -O3 C++ Compiler: g++ (4.0.3) C++ Compiler LyX flags: C++ Compiler flags: -O3 Linker flags: Linker user flags: Qt 4 Frontend: Qt 4 version: 4.2.1 Packaging: posix LyX binary dir: /usr/local/bin LyX files dir: /usr/local/share/lyx make sudo checkinstall make install-strip
