What do I need to run LyX?
- Either of :
+ Either:
* a Unix-like system (including Windows with cygwin)
* Windows 2000 or newer
* Mac OS 10.2 or newer
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 that you need at least Python 2.3.4 for exporting LyX files
+ 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)
+ 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.
How does the LyX version scheme work?