Either of :
* a Unix-like system (including Windows with cygwin)
- * Windows 98 or newer
- * Mac OS 10.2 or newer
+ * Windows 2000 or newer
+ * Mac OS 10.2 or newer
A decent LaTeX2e installation (e.g. teTeX for unix) not older
than 1995/12/01.
- Python 1.5.2 or later to convert old LyX files
+ Python 2.3 or later to convert old LyX files and for helper scripts
How does the LyX version scheme work?
are labeled with a "pre" suffix. Thus there are three possible
file names:
- lyx-1.4.0.tar.gz -- stable release
- lyx-1.4.5.tar.gz -- fifth maintenance release of the
- 1.4 stable release
- lyx-1.4.0pre1.tar.gz -- potentially unstable test release
+ lyx-1.5.0.tar.gz -- stable release
+ lyx-1.5.5.tar.gz -- fifth maintenance release of the
+ 1.5 stable release
+ lyx-1.5.0pre1.tar.gz -- potentially unstable test release
The maintenance releases are designed primarily to fix bugs. The
goal here is not to have parallel development as for the linux
If you get the source from Subversion, the version string will
look like one of:
- 1.4.1svn -- this is the stable branch on which maintenance
- release 1.4.1 will eventually be tagged.
- 1.5.0svn -- this is the main branch on which stable
- release 1.5.0 will eventually be tagged.
+ 1.5.1svn -- this is the stable branch on which maintenance
+ release 1.5.1 will eventually be tagged.
+ 1.6.0svn -- this is the main branch on which stable
+ release 1.6.0 will eventually be tagged.
What's new?
What do I need to compile LyX from the source distribution?
* A good C++ compiler. Development is being done mainly with
- gcc/g++, but some others work also. As of LyX 1.4.0, you need at
- least gcc 3.x.
+ gcc/g++, but some others work also. As of LyX 1.5.0, you need at
+ least gcc 3.2.x.
- Either:
- * The Xforms library, version 1.0.
- * LibXpm, version 4.7 or newer.
-
- Or:
- * The Qt library, version 3.0 or newer.
+ * The Qt4 library, version 4.1.1 or newer.
Read the file "INSTALL" for more information on compiling.
right-to-left languages like Arabic or Hebrew. There is a port
of LyX named CJK-LyX which adds support for Chinese, Korean
and Japanese (http://cellular.phys.pusan.ac.kr/cjk.html)
+ [This support is being merged in lyx-1.5]
Menus and error messages have been translated to 17 languages.
For the status of the different translations, see