On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn <v...@lyx.org> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> To compile the User's guide, I had to manually install the package >> "texlive-esint-type1". >> >> Shouldn't this be installed automatically when the lyx package is >> installed ? I'm now at OpenSuse. Do other distros do install this >> package ? >> > No. It doesn't work like this in most Linux distros. > > While on Windows we have the nicely packaged MiKTeX, which can > willy-nilly install packages "on-the-fly", on Linux the process is > much more manual. Most distros use very inflexible LaTeX distributions > that don't come with the default, internal package manager. So as a > user you have to spot the exact LaTeX package missing, find the > associated distro package that contains it (if any), and install that. > Actually I stand corrected. As it turns out, Debian (hence all derivatives, including Ubuntu) seems to have recently had a change of heart and is now shipping `tlmgr`: http://askubuntu.com/questions/485514/how-to-properly-install-and-use-texlive-with-package-manager-in-14-04
I'm not yet sure how useful it is, but at this point we might want to investigate how LyX could communicate with `tlmgr` (if detected in the TeXLive installation), in ways similar to MiKTeX on Windows. We might also want to check if non-Debian distros ship TeXLive's internal manager. Scott, do you have any experience with the `tlmgr` in Ubuntu 14.04? Is this comparable in functionality to your `install-tl-ubuntu` script? Regards, Liviu > That's why we come up with things like: > https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu > > Regards, > Liviu > > >> How can we inform the distros that this package is required ? >> >> Vincent > > > > -- > Do you think you know what math is? > http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 > Or what it means to be intelligent? > http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 > Think again: > http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
