Progress?? I decided to try one more time. For some reason (priority user??) compiling as root made it past the latest bottleneck, and it is still thrashing away.
Lol. I can't even get past apt-get build-dep:
E: Build dependency for lyx cannot be satisfied because no available versions of package libboost-dev can satisfy version requirement
I already installed all libboost-*-dev and switched to "sid" in deb-src. How did you get there?
That is strange. I never got that message. Wait. What is this apt-get build-dep? I got the sources for lyx from
http://www.lyx.org, unpacked them, and ran ./configure. The first time, ./configure complained about missing moc and other things, installing libqt4-dev took care of that. I have no idea what build-dep is, or why that would help building lyx.
BTW, I woke up this morning to a completely built up version of lyx-1.5.2, which so far seems to work just fine. If someone wants it, I can create a tarball, but this installs into /usr/local to keep it separate from the distribution.