On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:13:23AM -0500, Matej Cepl wrote: > > there. the deb comes with almost nothing. i have to install a > > dictionary, none of the classes work except article. only > > default fonts and spacing. > > You didn't get a dictionary (I suppose for spellchecking?) nor > fonts from lyx package under redhat. Concerning other classes > article -- the problem with Debian is that it doesn't (rather > contraintuitively) install all parts of tetex. You have to > install tetex-extra on the top of what you have. After
The reason that the lyx package (or actually, lyx-common) does not depend on tetex-extra (or even tetex-base) is that lyx can work without these packages. However, these packages are listed as recommended packages for lyx-common: dpkg -s lyx-common|grep Recommends: Recommends: latex, dvips, tetex-base, perl, tetex-extra, gv, ispell | aspell, imagemagick It is advisable to use a front-end to apt like dselect or aptitude instead of apt-get, as these frontends lists the recommended packages of packages you want to install, and you can select which of these packages you want to install.
