Public bug reported:
The LyX package is too big in size (~750MB) while on Lucid it is less than
20MB. Possible reason is either one or a combination of:
1) LyX for Precise is in active development
2) too many packages ebing installed (see packages below)
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch)
Release: 12.04
$ apt-cache policy lyx
lyx:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2.0.2-1ubuntu2
Version table:
2.0.2-1ubuntu2 0
500 http://lb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe amd64 Packages
$ apt-get install lyx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
dvipng elyxer gettext intltool-debian lacheck latex-beamer latex-xcolor
libboost-regex1.46.1 libboost-signals1.46.1 libgettextpo0
libmail-sendmail-perl libsys-hostname-long-perl libunistring0 lmodern luatex
lyx-common pgf po-debconf preview-latex-style prosper ps2eps psutils
tex-common texlive-base texlive-binaries texlive-common texlive-doc-base
texlive-extra-utils texlive-font-utils texlive-fonts-recommended
texlive-fonts-recommended-doc texlive-generic-extra
texlive-generic-recommended texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-base-doc
texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc texlive-latex-recommended
texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-luatex texlive-pictures
texlive-pictures-doc texlive-pstricks texlive-pstricks-doc texlive-science
texlive-science-doc tipa ttf-lyx
Suggested packages:
gettext-doc auctex rcs dvipost groff libtiff-tools gnuhtml2latex wv chktex
noweb sgmltools-lite linuxdoc-tools writer2latex latex2rtf librsvg2-bin
inkscape texlive-xetex etoolbox libmail-box-perl debhelper perl-tk dvidvi
fragmaster latexmk purifyeps xindy t1utils texpower dot2tex
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dvipng elyxer gettext intltool-debian lacheck latex-beamer latex-xcolor
libboost-regex1.46.1 libboost-signals1.46.1 libgettextpo0
libmail-sendmail-perl libsys-hostname-long-perl libunistring0 lmodern luatex
lyx lyx-common pgf po-debconf preview-latex-style prosper ps2eps psutils
tex-common texlive-base texlive-binaries texlive-common texlive-doc-base
texlive-extra-utils texlive-font-utils texlive-fonts-recommended
texlive-fonts-recommended-doc texlive-generic-extra
texlive-generic-recommended texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-base-doc
texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc texlive-latex-recommended
texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-luatex texlive-pictures
texlive-pictures-doc texlive-pstricks texlive-pstricks-doc texlive-science
texlive-science-doc tipa ttf-lyx
0 upgraded, 49 newly installed, 0 to remove and 146 not upgraded.
Need to get 451 MB/453 MB of archives.
After this operation, 754 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? n
Abort.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: lyx (not installed)
Uname: Linux 3.3.0-030300-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Apr 5 16:26:31 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Beta amd64 (20120328)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: lyx
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: lyx (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug lyx precise
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LyX package too big in Precise (relative to Lucid)
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