Here is the list of LyX dependencies on 10.04, list obtained by apt-get remove and then cancel:
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: texlive-extra-utils texlive-base texlive-pictures-doc texlive-fonts-recommended doc-base texlive-pstricks-doc dvipng lmodern texlive-common texlive-latex-extra-doc libaiksaurus-1.2-0c2a texlive-pstricks luatex preview-latex-style ttf-lyx prosper tipa texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-latex-base-doc libkpathsea5 libboost-signals1.40.0 libt1-5 libaiksaurus-1.2-data texlive-latex-extra texlive-binaries lyx-common libmldbm-perl libuuid-perl pgf texlive-latex-recommended texlive-generic-recommended texlive-latex-base texlive-fonts-recommended-doc libfreezethaw-perl ps2eps latex-beamer texlive-luatex texlive-font-utils latex-xcolor texlive-doc-base tex-common lacheck texlive-pictures I remember LyX as having a really big download, but don't have a computer to dink with. I have used LyX to produce a book. > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2012 23:04:25 +0300 > From: "Merhebi, Bob" <bobmerh...@gmail.com> > To: ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: LyX in Precise: too big > Message-ID: <4f7b57c9.9060...@gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hello guys, > > Today I thought i'd install LyX to test it out on Precise, but I was > shocked with its download size. I didn't install!!! > > Here's what I asked in the LyX mailing list: > > I've been testing Ubuntu12.04 lately & just now I > was thinking of using LyX on it. TO my big surprise the LyX requires a > large download of ~450 MB+. I am shocked!!! IS that the true size? If > not mistaken I recall that on 10.04 it required ~ 25MB. Am I mistaken? > Is there something wrong? > > And here's two replies I got: > > 1) The download from Ubuntu was probably a debug build. These are much > larger than the release build. You might want to contact the Ubuntu > project and let them know that the build is much larger than expected. > > Another idea is that they may have changed the LaTeX dependencies. If > so, it might be downloading a lot of extra TeX packages that aren't > needed. > > Regardless, I would definitely get in touch with the Ubuntu project. To > the best of my knowledge, they don't subscribe to this list, and it's > something that they will want to hear about. > > > 2) I am also suspecting that your total download size contains a bunch of > LaTeX dependencies > > It is worth noting that LyX 2.0.3 that is currently installed on my > Lucid (by ppa) has a total size of 10.5MB, while that in Precise's > Software Center is about 450MB (download) & 700MB+ (install). > > So I thought I'd get your thoughts on this & on how to proceed! Who & > how (launchpad?) should be notified about this? > > thanks > > -- > Sincerely Yours, > -Merhebi, Bob > > Thunderbird Signature > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: > <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-qa/attachments/20120403/7e9e3573/attachment-0001.html> > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: signature.asc > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 554 bytes > Desc: OpenPGP digital signature > URL: > <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-qa/attachments/20120403/7e9e3573/attachment-0001.pgp> > > ------------------------------ > -- Ubuntu-qa mailing list Ubuntu-qa@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-qa
