Thanks for the directions. > The question remains: why not simply build against libqt3-dev? You > probably need to get it from sid to build with g++ 3.2 though. The reason I didn't do that was cos the LyX developers mention somewhere in the docs that qt *may* need to be compiled with the same compiler as LyX.. but I'll give libqt3-dev a try the next time around.. nirmal