JOHN CULLETON wrote:
While in the process of trying to add things like Qt4 to my Slack 12 system I managed to mung my ability to send outgoing mail. I reinstalled on a fresh partition but I still have problems.
If so, then it wouldn't seem Qt4 (or any of these other things) are
responsible. You're sure it's a completely fresh install?
So among other things I am giving up on Lyx. More to the point, I am giving up on recommending Lyx to TEX newbies. If someone can cite a version of Lyx that runs without tears on the latest stable version of Slack (12) then I may give it a try again.
Installation on Ubuntu and Fedora, I can attest, are painless. That's
probably because they have robust package management systems, which
Slackware famously does not. That's not a flame. There are lots of
different reasons to use different distros. But Qt4 has been out almost
three years. If Slackware doesn't permit easy installation of the Qt4
libraries, then, well, presumably you wouldn't recommend Slackware to
newbies, either.
There seems to be a virus infecting developers all over the net that compels them to use the newest tools even though the newest tools are not widely available. Qt 4 is the most notable of these attractive nuisances. True, I can install a Kubuntu 4 partition and get KDE 4 which uses Qt4.
Qt4 and KDE 4 are completely different animals. The only connection is
that the latter uses the former.
rh
