Russell Davie schrieb: > 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. >
Yep, that's wrong :-) It depends on the package management of course, and it could be that on Ubuntu you would need to uninstall the meta package (k)ubuntu-desktop or something like that (which you might want to reinstall before upgrading to a new Ubuntu release), but you can run Texlive instead of Tetex on Ubuntu easily. IIRC Texlive packages are in the universe repositories. A while ago somebody on this list posted a "checkinstall"-ed lyx-1.4.4 deb package for Ubuntu Edgy that did not depend on any specific Tex variant (again, IIRC). It worked fine for me with Texlive. HTH, sven
