On Wed, 9 May 2007 09:17:01 +0100 Nick Hopton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In a recent message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote. > > [...] > >>> Easy: apt-get install lyx > >>> See man page (man apt-get). > > >> The problem is that if you do this you'll only get Lyx 1.4.4, at > >>present, not Version 1.5. Perhaps that ought to be 'sudo apt-get > >>install lyx', by the way <g>. > > >Eh... 1.5 hasn't been released yet... > [...] > > Yes, sorry, I've been using the 1.5 beta releases on XP. One other > problem is (if I remember rightly) that on the Ubuntu side if you use > 'apt-get' or the Synaptic Package Manager to install LyX it also > installs, without the option, a load of other stuff that you don't > necessarily want, like TeTeX. Some people might prefer to work with > TeXlive, for example. AFAIK, TeteX is the how the LaTeX backend is managed in Linux. Without it, its impossible to do any LaTeX. After using LaTeX in Linux for several years and several *nix flavours, it seems to be mandatory to install TeTeX to run LaTeX and thus LyX. Please correct me if this is wrong. TeTex seems to be an extra ~80mb to download and installs and runs transparently in the usually easy Ubuntu manner. Some have uploaded LyX deb packages for Ubuntu 6.06, I compiled from source. Instructions and resulting deb is here: http://home.exetel.com.au/randombits/index.html - R > > This might be heresy, but to be honest I much prefer the way that LyX > installs and works under XP. > > Regards, > Nick. > > -- > Nick Hopton and Anne Hopton > Caversham, Reading, England > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Please, if possible, don't send me MS Word or Powerpoint attachments. Send plain text, rich text format, html, or pdf instead. Why? See: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/sylvester-response.html
