This is patch-2.0.1, the 1st maintenance patch against LyX 2.0.0. You need the source of lyx 2.0.0 to apply this patch. This patch should be applied like this cd lyx-2.0.0 make distclean zcat patch-2.0.0.gz | patch -p1 and then LyX can be build as usual. If you want to skip the 'distclean' step, make sure to re-run configure. For all questions related to this patch, mail to lyx-devel@lists.lyx.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------