Re: lyx2.0.6

[Philipp Gröne]

Hello! I've been not at my computer since Wednesday evening, and read your mails in a time-reversed order. After my first shock I very glad that you managed to fix it, I would have had a quite guilty conscience if I'd managed to break your operating system remotely and then going of for a prolonged absence. As far as I know the gnome-dependencies installed with Lyx stem from the recommended installation of evince, which is the standard-PDF-reader under gnome, therefore using gnome-dependencies. This can be avoided by using the -r suffix to apt-get install. I'm writing this response to the list because I've struggled with that myself - why the rec for evince in the Debian package? I really would prefer no recommendation for a PDF-viewer, assuming that every user who uses Lyx has the PDF-viewer of his choice already installed. (In my case, zathura - evince is lightweight indeed, even considering the gnome-dependencies, but zathura is even more lightweight.) Greetings! Ph. On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 18:05:07 +0200, Wolfgang Engelmann <engelm...@uni-tuebingen.de> wrote: On Wednesday 23 October 2013 15:16:23 Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > Hello, bad news > > I tried to update as suggested by Philipp using the synaptic command, > but got after a long time of retrieving and installing packages many > errors which I had collected in a reply mail (gnome -but I use kde ...). > In trying to send it it turned out that the KMail was not working > (could not find the mail provider). So I restarted the PC with the > result that it freezes at the login Menu (user, password) and I can > not move the mouse anymore, ctr alt del does not work. I could try to > use a knoppix dvd for recovery, but do not know what to do. So may be > I should ask somebody from the Linux User Group Tuebingen for help. > I am writing this from my notebook. > > Wolfgang   Sorry for this Mail. I have gone into the recovery mode and checked various things. Starting the PC again brought me back to x windows screen. Synaptics told me there are defect packages which were repaired. Afterward I was able to install the 2.0.6 lyx.   I guess, what happens was that in sudo synaptic update I might not have waited long enough ... Anyway it is now working again and I can use now the lyx2.0.6. Thanks for the help and sorry for the noise.   Wolfgang