A decent LaTeX2e installation (e.g. TeX Live for Linux, MikTeX for
Windows).
- Python 2.3 or later to convert old LyX files and for helper scripts.
- Note 1: Python 2.3.4 or later is required for exporting LyX files
- to a pre-unicode format, as previous versions are affected by a bug
- about the normalization of unicode strings.
- Note 2: Python 2.4.0 or later is required for the clean_dvi.py script,
- which, however, is only used on Windows, where at least Python 2.6.0
- is anyway recommended.
+ Python 2.4 or later to convert old LyX files and for helper scripts.
+ Note 1: Python 2.4 or later is required due to the subprocess module.
+ Note 2: Python 2.6 or later is recommended on Windows.
Note 3: Python 3.0 or later is not supported.
How does the LyX version scheme work?
gcc/g++, but some others work also. As of LyX 1.6.0, you need at
least gcc 3.2.x.
- * The Qt4 library, at least version 4.4.0. For all features
+ * The Qt4 library, at least version 4.2.2. For all features
newer versions (e.g. Qt 4.6) are recommended.
Read the file "INSTALL" for more information on compiling.