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Re: LyX 1.0 for slink?



Sean:
> > Yeah, but lyx wants stuff like libc6 from potato and other essentials
> > that will break a working slink dist.

dyer:
> I have lyx 1.0 on my slink system. Lyx has a dependency on libc6. Not the
> new one, _any_ one. It won't upgrade you to the new libc6. (Well, I guess
> if you were running bo it would ;-)  ) All dependencies can be met with a
> slink system. If you don't want any other packages installed from
> unstable, just look up dependencies and install them from stable tree.

I presume the lazy man's way of doing this would be:
	download the lyx .deb from potato
	dpkg -i --force-depends lyx*.deb
	point dselect at slink and do [S], 2x[Enter], [I], [C]

Would that work like I think it would?

(More importantly, am I a dangerous maniac with habits like that?)


Jiri 
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