Re: LyX 2.5.2 installation failure

On Mon, Aug 17, 2026 at 05:31:39PM -0400, Paul Rubin wrote:
> Thanks for the response. For what it's worth, I did run 'sudo apt-get
> build-dep lyx' before installing and it did /not/ install the
> libxkbcommon-x11-dev library. (Is 'apt-get' rather than 'apt' a problem?)

Don't know, might be that you chose different Qt version to compile against
or it could be that mint != debian in this regard.

> After getting your message, I installed it and reran 'make' (which did not
> seem to find any work to do). I then ran 'make check', and apparently one
> test failed (tests/test_Length). Per the instructions in the terminal, I
> have attached the gzipped test-suite.log file. I ignored the failure and
> finished the installation anyway. LyX 2.5.2 seems to be working fine.

Make check failure is unrelated to to your linkage libxkbcommon error.
It's fixed for 2.5.3 by 
https://codeberg.org/LyX-org/lyx/commit/24ee9d1cad6ba6385fc89f7203dd20eb13cc932b

Pavel
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