Hi
As you can see the in the message below, Miki has created a Knoppix CD
with LyX. Some questions:
* Does it make sense to keep a copy of the CD on wiki.lyx.org or www.lyx.org?
* It takes 700 MB (of course), is the size a problem?
('df -h /home' on aussie reports 55GB available...)
* How should he upload it? Could he for instance upload it to the
ftp-server, and I could then move it to a better location?
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
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Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 08:45:53 +0200
From: Miki Dovrat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: gmane.editors.lyx.general
Subject: Re: selling lyx part 2
> Does that have LyX? If not, does anyone know of a live CD with a working
> LyX installation?
I have taken the knoppix CD and remastered it (easy instructions on the
knoppix website, long and exhausting procedure) to include TeTex, LyX,
fonts, imagemagick, viewers, etc. I put Open-office on it so I could read
Word documents, and I even had room to spare so I included Octave, Grace,
and Gnuplot. All these things are all prepackaged in the Debian
distribution, including all fonts required (The Hebrew fonts for TeX I had
to get from somewhere else and install, they even might have been packaged
in Debian as well, but anyway, Debian has a "alien" command to install
"alien" packages), so the procedure is straightforward (no compilation), you
just have to choose the packages from the installation program ("aptitude",
apt-get). It is a "smart" program that takes care of pre-requisites and
downloads all needes extra libraries for you as well.
When I did this, only lyx 1.3.4 was packaged so I used that instead of
compiling 1.3.5, which was a week old at the time.
I also removed all games, some foreign (for me) language support (fonts and
dictionaries of German, French, etc.) and other programs I didn't care for
to make room.
If it is of any interest, I could upload the CD image to somewhere. You can
always take this image as a starting point instead of the original Knoppix
(for example if you really miss the European language dictionaries for
OpenOffice and the spellers)
I don't have anywhere to put 700MB (the uncompressed version is 2GB).
Miki
