<SNIP> I have tidied up the instructions (including a nice suggestion from Wolfgang) and posted the tutorial on the Wiki under the Tips/Compiling section:
http://wiki.lyx.org/Tips/Compiling#sTips.Compiling_9 It would be nice if someone could include a yum/whatever equivalent for the Debian apt-get build-dep lyx command. I also included a brief separate section on the virtues of using GNU Stow to install the compiled software. Cheers, Alan -- Alan L Tyree http://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206