Having moved to 12.04 recently I installed lyX. Apparently any package you try to install, you are "suggested" & "recommended" other packages, making the total download huge. To overcome this & not install these other unnecessary packages just add
--no-install-recommends after apt-get & before install: apt-get --no-install-recommends install lyx That's it On 05/03/2012 04:02 PM, Richard Heck wrote: > On 05/03/2012 04:26 AM, Merhebi, Bob wrote: >> On 04/20/2012 04:46 PM, Richard Heck wrote: >>> You do NOT have to have TeX installed to use LyX. Only to >>> compile to PDF. Plenty of people use TeX-less installs on >>> netbooks, etc. >>> >>> Richard >> What about the math? I am writing a technical document which >> requires math formulas& even physics notation -e.g; (quantum) >> bracket- (it's actually a physics document for a course). I'd >> like to collaborate with someone to write it& edit it. Doesn't >> that requires TeX? >> > No. You only need TeX to compile the LaTeX. You can still export a > LaTeX file from within LyX, too, if you don't have TeX installed, > send it to someone else, whatever. > > Richard > -- Sincerely Yours, -Merhebi,Bob TB
