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LyX 2.2.0 for 16.04 LTS

Asked by Jalsti

I wondered if the current version 2.2.0 of LyX will make it into the long term support Ubuntu version, or if any company/university which requires LTS will have to stick to the obsolete version until 2021?

Thanks

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

I suggest you report a bug stating why it is obsolete and the package may be updated sooner rather than later.

The LyX website has PPAs you can add to get a newer version
https://www.lyx.org/Download

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Jalsti (jalsti) said : 		#2

Just filed bug #160214

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Jalsti (jalsti) said : 		#3

Sorry: Just filed bug #1602145

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Manfred Hampl (m-hampl) said : 		#4

You should not have to stick to 2.1 until 2021, because you should be able to upgrade to Ubuntu 18.04 in 2018, and that release will most probably contain a version >= 2.2.0

For the time being a workaround will be using one of the the PPAs of the Lyx devel team, see http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu#toc3

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Jalsti (jalsti) said : 		#5

Still over a year of incompatibility - and the workaround via other PPAs has unfortunately no use if you have no control over your environment (e.g. in companies/universities/…)