On Monday 18 February 2008 19:54, Pavel Sanda wrote: > > But now I want to upgrade LyX without installing a newer operating > > system. I don't think that's too much to ask. > > > > One could counter that if I used Debian I could just apt-get install the > > whole thing. Well I don't use Debian -- I like Mandriva and have been > > using it since 2000, and I would certainly like to see developers not > > place stumbling blocks of specific versions and subversions of tools. > > i dont see why debian or fedora are able to have 1.5 series in their tree > and mandriva not. > > > Interestingly, it appears that in order to upgrade to qt 2.2.3, I would > > need to upgrade my glibc (because of rtld(GNU_HASH)). I'm sorry, but > > that's just too much to expect from a user. > > erm, this is the second time you mention qt 2.x.y, i previsouly thought its > just typo and i wonder - on my distro there are only qt 3.3.8 and qt 4.3.2 > available. you really mean 'upgrade to 2.2.3' ? - this seems to be some > message ten years back :)
Yeah, I meant 4.2.3. SteveT