Fix bug #6561: Crash when using Spellchecker's language box when cursor is in math.

[lyx.git] / INSTALL

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index bdef40d7c028c71189f6645b0b0c090af01df5c0..8edf02b5aa6a2bda84bdca84cd23be87ccc783f6 100644 (file)
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -6,14 +6,17 @@ Quick compilation guide
 
 These four steps will compile, test and install LyX:
 
-       0) Linux users beware: if compiling the Qt frontend, you need
-           qt4 and qt4-devel packages of the same version to compile LyX.
+       0) Linux users beware: You need qt4 and qt4-devel packages 
+          of the same version to compile LyX.
 
        1) ./configure
           configures LyX according to your system. 
-          When compiling for Qt, you may have to set
-             --with-qt4-dir=<path-to-your-qt4-installation>
-           if the environment variable QTDIR is not set. 
+          You may have to set
+           --with-qt4-dir=<path-to-your-qt4-installation>
+     if the environment variable QTDIR is not set (for example,
+     '--with-qt4-dir=/usr/share/qt4/'). Alternatively, you could
+     install pkgconfig (the name might vary depending on your 
+     distribution). 
           See Note below if ./configure script is not present.
 
        2) make
@@ -31,7 +34,7 @@ Note for Subversion (SVN) checkouts
 -----------------------------
 
 If you have checked this out from Subversion, you need to have:
-* automake >= 1.5
+* automake >= 1.8
 * autoconf >= 2.59c
 * gettext >= 0.12
 Then type "./autogen.sh" to build the needed configuration
@@ -39,20 +42,21 @@ files and proceed as stated below.
 
 You will also probably need GNU m4 (perhaps installed as gm4).
 
+
 Requirements
 ------------
 
 First of all, you will also need a recent C++ compiler, where recent
 means that the compilers are close to C++ standard conforming (gcc 4.x).
 
-LyX 1.6.x makes great use of C++ Standard Template Library (STL).
+LyX makes great use of C++ Standard Template Library (STL).
 This means that gcc users will have to install the relevant libstdc++
 library to be able to compile this version of LyX. 
 
-LyX has been tested with all Qt versions since Qt 4.2.2. For compilation
-you need to compile against at least Qt 4.2.2. The only special point to
-make is that you must ensure that both LyX and the Qt libraries are
-compiled with the same C++ compiler.
+For full LyX usability we suggest to use at least Qt 4.6 which has been
+widely tested. For compilation you need to compile against at least
+Qt 4.2.2. The only special point to make is that you must ensure that both
+LyX and the Qt libraries are compiled with the same C++ compiler.
 
 Note that if Qt is using Xft2/fontconfig, you may need to install the
 latex-xft-fonts package (at ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/contrib/) to get
@@ -73,10 +77,6 @@ to some dependencies in the makefiles. You can get the latest version
 from:
        ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext/
 
-To use the thesaurus, you will need to install libAikSaurus, available
-from:
-       http://aiksaurus.sourceforge.net/
-
 The two following programs should be available at configuration time:
 
   o LaTeX2e should be correctly setup for the user you are logged in
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ The two following programs should be available at configuration time:
 
   o Python 2.3 or newer installed to be able to import older LyX files
     with the lyx2lyx script (this script is called automatically when
-    opening a file).
+    opening a file). Python 3.0 or later is not supported.
 
 
 Creating the Makefile