On 07/23/2017 05:28 PM, Uwe Stöhr wrote:
One of the first steps was of course to try out LyX. Unfortunately I
could not compile the UserGuide because of the missing package
enumitem. I wanted to install it but cannot find it. there is also no
texlive program to start to install the missing package there - or
better to install missing packages automatically.
How can I do this?
In the package manager of the distribution I searched for texlive and
only found some packages "texlive-extraformats" etc. I was still lost
in which one might enumitem be, so I installed them all (more than a
GB volume!). Then I could compile the UserGuide.
I also realized that none of my LyX files did compile because of
missing packages. it seems that the texlive package that was installed
together with LyX does mostly contain the TeX binary rather than
packages.
Uwe,
There is an analog to the MiKTeX package manager in TeXLive. The program
name is tlmgr, and it is part of the texlive-base package (and least in
the Debian packaging system; I'm not sure what packages Manjaro uses).
You can run it as a standard shell command, or get a (rather
aesthetically unappealing) GUI by running "tlmgr --gui" in a terminal.
You can also probably compile MiKTeX on your system, according to
https://miktex.org/howto/build-unx. There are now prebuilt binary
distributions of MiKTeX for the latest Ubuntu and Linux Mint
distributions, but I don't think they can be used on Manjaro due to the
different package management system. I haven't tried MiKTeX myself, but
I'm tempted. I really like its package manager and minimalist approach
to installation.
Cheers,
Paul