On Tuesday 24 March 2009 15:57:11 killermike wrote: > On Tuesday 24 March 2009 13:39:00 Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > > Since there seems to be no deb package of lyx 1.6.2 yet for debian, I > > wonder whether somebody has used the alien prg for the SuSe rpm package. > > Is it recommendable or better to use the source code? > > > > Wolfgang > > If it makes any difference, I found 1.6.x the easiest LyX build I have ever > done when I did it on Ubuntu 8.10. I added LyX 1.5.x, using the package > manager and then just did ./configure make sudo make install on the 1.6.x > source code. The one thing I had to add was a dev package for aspell.
There is an easy way to make debian packages: use checkinstall. Here is what I do: 1)./configure --prefix=/usr --program-suffix=-1.6 --with-version-suffix=-1.6 2)make 3)checkinstall -D The last command must be entered as root, and it will create and install the corresponding lyx .deb package. rodrigo.
