On Fri 21 Sep 2012 02:17:24 AM EEST, Bob Merhebi wrote: > 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
Having did this lately, I faced problems with a document I was working on: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg93458.html My suggestion is to install Lyx as usual (with all suggestion/recommendations): apt-get install lyx It will require 200~300 MB for all packages. This made it work again: http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg93470.html -- Sincerely Yours, Merhebi, Bob TB
