Updates: Looked first in Kubuntu repositories, and installed 3 packages containing parts of the APA style:
- texlive-publishers - texlive-publishers-doc (required dependency) - texlive-bibtex-extra Reconfigured and restart LyX, and APA document class become available. Thank you very much for explaining the relation LaTex-LyX, which allowed me to find these 3 packages in the Kubuntu 12.04 repositories. But all these packages don't cover APA6 too, and repositories have nothing on APA6. Did read the description in your script, and understood that installing CTAN packages (apa6.dtx) is possible with Tex Live (which I found in Kubuntu repositories). Although I'm afraid to use your script, because you say that some previous installed Tex Live files should be removed manually, and I worry not to brake the system. Also, I don't really need all CTAN repository. Need a file, can download it. At this point, I wonder if I could use the texlive package in Kubuntu repositories to install the apa6.dtx file I already downloaded. I understand from the description in your script that texlive works in the back. So, all I should do is to run: *sudo apt-get Downloads/apa6/apa6.dtx* (where directory is the actual one). Sorry to bother you with all these details, but I'm not a programmer, just a somehow advanced Linux user. I try to avoid wrong steps, being afraid of doing something bad, I couldn't repair. This is why I'm asking you for a confirmation if what I intend to do is right. Thanks again (happy to have get work the APA class), P.G. On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Patrick Gagnon <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks Scott, > > First for correcting the email I've previously used, from lyx.docs to > lyx.users. Sorry for having used the wrong one before. > Second (actually this should count for first), thanks for the clear > explanation about LyX vs. LaTex functions, and the detailed procedure to > install the files to make unavailable classes, available. Copy-paste code > lines in a terminal is the programming language I perfectly understand [?] > ...And the only one! I'll give it a try sometime these days, and will be > back to you with the results. > > Thank you very much, > P.G. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]> > Date: Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:30 AM > Subject: Re: Customization manual, 5.1 Installing new LaTeX files, Kubuntu > 12.04 > To: Patrick Gagnon <[email protected]> > Cc: LyX Documentation Team <[email protected]> > > > On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 12:06 AM, Patrick Gagnon <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am impressed with LyX approach to writing papers and with its > potential. > > Couldn't imagine it is so much easier to write directly into a template, > > instead of permanently being preoccupied with formating. Was very > skeptical > > when first opened LyX (this might sound usual to you, suppose LyX users > are > > characterized by skepticism - this is science, isn't it?). But very soon > I > > was amazed. BRAVO! > > > > But (there's always a but), I'm not from maths, astros, etc., rather from > > human sciences. I need APA & APA6 "unavailable" packages installed. > > Downloaded them (zip) and unzipped them, but what do I have to do now? > The > > manual mentioned in this message subject says something like: "modify the > > local/user tree", and "define variables"... Hello (or should I write just > > Hell), I'm not a programmer! I know how to use a Terminal, how to use an > > application with root privileges (kdesudo), how to install a PPA, but > this > > is about all I know. Should I say sorry for not using Windex or the > stupid > > Maple? Never! > > > > Well, mainly I didn't write you to ask for advises on how to install APA > and > > APA6 new LaTex files, I just wanted to let you to know that this > > standards/styles are so much used (almost exclusively) for writing > papers in > > human sciences, from articles to doctoral thesis, and within Psychology > > (where the style was created) to almost any other human science (just > name > > it). These being said, it would be very nice from you, a bunch of > positive > > scientists, to think at as, poor human scientists, too, and include > within > > the next update these styles (APA and APA6), as available document > classes. > > And until than, some specific advises on how to install these missing > LaTex > > files I downloaded from CTAN, would be so much welcome. Thanx! > > > > Folks, you did such a good job with this application, but for the moment > it > > is a little bit narrow without the most used styles (I'd say 90%+) in > human > > sciences, which are the APA & APA6 standards (both, because many human > > sciences still favor the old APA style). > > > > Thanks for your understanding, and hoping for a both, human & positive > > answer. > > Bests, > > P.G. (not Peter Gabriel, he singes much humbler: p.g.) > > > > Hi Patrick, > > Thank you for thoughtful email. It's always nice to receive feedback > on what we're doing right and what we need to do better. It's nice to > see LaTeX and LyX being used more widely outside of math-based > disciplines. It really does have a lot of features that should not be > limited to publications with math. > > LyX is a frontend to LaTeX. What that means is that LyX does the > formatting then hands it off to LaTeX. You are asking about installing > LaTeX files. That is not the job of LyX. It is the job of your LaTeX > package (TeX Live in Ubuntu) or of your package manager (apt in > Ubuntu). I don't see how LyX could make the process easier without > going far outside of its purview. Please let me know if you disagree > or if you have any further feedback on this. These are just my > opinions. > > Now to your question. I suggest you google "install LaTeX packages in > Ubuntu." Alternatively, you might be interested in a script that I > wrote: > https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu > > With just a couple commands you can install everything you will ever > need for using LyX and LaTeX and all of the document classes in LyX > will become available. > If you want to use it, I recommend you remove your current TeX Live files: > sudo apt-get purge texlive-* > > Then download the script with: > wget > https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu/raw/master/install-tl-ubuntu > && > <https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu/raw/master/install-tl-ubuntu&&;> > chmod +x ./install-tl-ubuntu > > Then take a look at the options you might want: > ./install-tl-ubuntu --help > > For example, you might like the "--more-tex" option, which installs > all LaTeX files needed for LyX. > > Then, run with: > > sudo ./install-tl-ubuntu --more-tex > > Note that this will take a long time. I recommend you run it before > you go to bed. After it is done, restart your computer. Then in LyX go > to Tools > Reconfigure. Then restart LyX. Now the document classes > should all be available. > > Please send any further questions (including replies to this email) to > [email protected]. You send your email to the documentation > list, which should only be used for corrections to LyX's > documentation. > > Best, > > Scott > >
