Ares wrote:
As announced, I am back with a new, stupid question on LyX under
GNU/Linux. I will ask it again since the question got lost in the
previous thread. It concerns tetex package installation. I'll ask it
as a dummy windows user.
when I was under windows (a long, long time ago), when exporting to
pdf from LyX, I was prompted by LyX to install missing packages and,
if I had an internet connection, everything worked smoothly.
Now under GNU/Linux do I have to install missing packages manually (I
know how to do it - more or less)? but then the question is: is there
a way to download all new files from command line in one step?
thanks in advance for the sympathetic advices...
This depends on what linux distribution you use - I don't know
the details of them all. Pleace specify that the next time you ask
a linux install question.
Debian and ubuntu certainly lets you install everything you
need with one command:
apt-get install <list of package names here>
Debian example:
apt-get install texlive-full lyx imagemagick xpdf
This will install the packages mentioned, as well as
any other packages these packages need to work. The
above command might pull in 50 packages or so.
You are probably using some other distribution, seeing
that you ask about tetex. On debian, texlive is a replacement
for tetex, as tetex is being phased out.
Most other distributions use the rpm packaging system.
It is a long time since I used those - one usually had to
download lots of rpm files and then give a command to install
them all. The main difference from the "apt" command above was
that you had to gather the files yourself, and then install all in
one go. rpm would then tell you if anything else was missing,
then you download that and try again until you have all you need.
I have heard that the rpm-based systems also have automatic
downloading these days, simplifying this process.
Helge Hafting
