Hi!
Just to give another example of excellent Unix installation procedures:
take a look at Debian.
Installing lyx is this line (as root): 'apt-get install lyx'. Thats it.
apt resolves all dependencies, loads all needed packages from the
configured source (cd, nfs, ftp, http) and installs them. It will only
ask you if it really needs to and if it wants to overwrite a
configuration file. Normally packages are so well preconfigured that you
don't have to do anything yourself. Packages are also removed
painlessly.
There are other places where Windows is superior (printing springs into
mind), but not in that field.
ciao
marksu
