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LyXOnDebian

1.  Installation

If you're running Debian, just type:

sudo apt install lyx

This will install the packages lyx-common and lyx and you're set!

1.1  Versions

• trixie: 2.4.1
• bookworm: 2.3.7 (backports: 2.4.1)
• bullseye: 2.3.6
• buster: 2.3.6
• stretch: 2.2.2 (backports: 2.3.2)

Please report Debian specific (packaging) bugs to the Debian Bug Tracking System. A list of currently reported bugs is available at http://bugs.debian.org/src:lyx

The official LyX Debian package group wiki site is here: http://wiki.debian.org/PkgLyx.

2.  Small or all inclusive installation?

If you'd like to get a small installation only with the bare minimum of packages you should try to install LyX with

 apt --no-install-recommends install lyx

This will only install LyX with it's bare minimal requirements.

If you'd like to get most out of LyX you should take a look at the packages listed in the 'Recommends and 'Suggests' stanza of the Debian package with

  apt-cache show lyx

and maybe install one or more of them along with LyX. The long description of the package includes a short description of the suggested tools.

3.  Using backports for more up-to-date version

• One needs to have included backports repository in his apt settings in /etc/apt/sources.list, for debian bookworm the added line could be similar to (you might want to add other repos like contrib non-free non-free-firmware):
  deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian bookworm-backports main
• update package database: apt update
• install to current lyx stable: apt -t bookworm-backports install lyx

4.  Build your own LyX

Get the sources either as a tarball (see http://www.lyx.org/Download), or fresh from GIT.

4.1  Dependencies

Build dependencies do not change that quickly, so you will meet most (or all) of them with

# apt build-dep lyx

4.2  Configure, Make, Install

See Compiling

5.  Installing/compiling very old versions of LyX in Debian

See dedicated page for that: Flashback.

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