On 03/29/2010 06:22 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote:
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 8:27 PM, rgheck<rgh...@bobjweil.com> wrote:
On 03/29/2010 02:17 PM, Wei-Dong Lian wrote:
Hi everyone,
I would like to know if there is a solution to install lyx 1.64 or
even higher version under ubuntu 8.04.
By default, lyx 1.5.3 is installed in ubuntu 8.04, to be honest, I began
with lyx1.6.4, so now all of my old lyx documents could not be opened. In
addition, in the new version of lyx after 1.64 they really added more
useful
features, easy to use. So if any suggestion will be appreciated.
I assume you could compile 1.6.4 yourself? This is not that hard to do, as
long as you can install the various dependencies.
rh
Thanks for your suggestions, I am afraid it is not that easy to install
these various dependencies.
It is more complex, I need to install many packages and remove many packages
to satisfy the decencies between packages.
I added one source list of lyx 1.64 of ubuntu9.10 to my source list, and I
tried the command 'sudo aptitude install lyx', it got several solutions to
install lyx 1.64, but it seemed that I will remove nearly all of packages in
my ubuntu 8.04 and install new packages. so I did not dare to try that, it
may harm my current system. If someone had experienced a successful case
like this, please give me some suggestions, thanks in advance. And also any
other solution will be welcomed.
I don't think this is what people were suggesting at all. Trying to
install packages from the 9.10 directories to an 8.04 install is
definitely not going to work, for exactly the reason you see.
The dependencies you need to compile LyX should not be that bad, just a
bunch of -devel or -dev packages, which are often not very large. Did
you try that suggestion? If so, what happened?
rh
