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MYaseen208
Asked: 2016-10-20 07:32:20 +0800 CST

Installing LyX 2.2.2 on Ubuntu 16.10

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I want to install LyX 2.2.2 on Ubuntu 16.10. I used the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:lyx-devel/release
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lyx

However, the above commands install LyX 2.2.0. Anyway to install LyX 2.2.2 on Ubuntu 16.10. Any help will be highly appreciated. Thanks

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3 Answers

  1. At present, sudo apt-get install lyx actually installs the 2.2.2 version of lyx!

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  2. You can either wait until they provide it through that repository (they still ship the old version), or compile it yourself.

    In the second case, you can download it from their website and follow the instructions inside to compile it (from the file INSTALL inside the package)

    Quick compilation guide

    These four steps will compile, test and install LyX:

    0) Linux users beware: You need qt4 and qt4-devel packages of the same version to compile LyX.

    In general, it is also recommended to have pkg-config installed (the name might vary depending on your distribution).

    1) ./configure configures LyX according to your system. You may have to set --with-qt-dir=<path-to-your-qt-installation> (for example, "--with-qt-dir=/usr/share/qt4/") if the environment variable QTDIR is not set and pkg-config is not available.

     See Note below if `./configure` script is not present.

    2) make compiles the program.

    3) src/lyx runs the program so you can check it out.

    4) make install will install it. You can use "make install-strip" instead if you want a smaller binary.

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  3. The ppa that you referred doesn't currently host the latest version of Lyx.

    You have currently two options:

    1. Wait for the maintainer to upload the latest version of Lyx to the repository.
    2. Compile it yourself.

    If you choose the second option, then download the tar.gz. Extract it and follow the instructions given in theINSTALL file inside lyx-2.2.2.

    Except for the last step. In the last step, it instructs you to do make install. Instead do checkinstall. What this will do is create a deb package for you which you can easily install using sudo dpkg -i and uninstall using apt. This way is recommended because then when you decide to uninstall this package and install the one from the ppa when it gets available, you can easily remove it alongwith all its configuration files without any hassle. To install checkinstall do:

    sudo apt-get install checkinstall
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