> back to the UserGuide, perhaps what we could actually do is, to simplify the UserGuide so that it can compile without the need for installing additional packages besides a minimal latex installation
The point is that almost nothing works out of the box. Not simple documents, not the tutorial. Because only texlive-bin package is installed together with LyX. I will report to the packagers that they should add more texlive packages to the install dependencies. > I would recommend an established distribution, such as openSuse. I haven't heard of this distro yet. I see now that Manjaro is on place 3 on Distrowatch while openSUSE is on place 6: http://distrowatch.com I googled around before I started and openSUSE was not recommended for beginners in any article I read. The top proposals for beginners in most articles were Mint, Ubuntu and Manjaro. > that's why I always install "vanilla" TeXLive instead of the distribution's). https://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html Many thanks, I will try this out. > Manjaro seems to ship its own (command line) package manager ("TeXLive Local Manager): https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TeX_Live I found it by googling and it seems to be installed but I cannot find it. But as you know I cannot use command lines because I don't know the commands and forget them all the time if I don't use them frequently. That was the reason why I came to LyX - because I forgot all the time the different LaTeX commands. > The packagers of a distribution decide which dependencies a package has. > Nothing _we_ can do here. Hmm, that is very bad. I think that explains why software companies don't offer Linux versions. (I saw yesterday that there are no longer Skype, Adobe Reader and other useful programs on Linux.) Giving support for all the different dozens of distributions would be a nightmare if every distribution decides on its own what to install with a program and what not. regards Uwe
