On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Liviu Andronic <landronim...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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?
I ran into a similar error as that user and the fixes at the time did not work for me. The solution there worked for the user so that's good. Hopefully it will work even more easily in the next Ubuntu version. Scott > > 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
