Hi all, When I switched to Void Linux, most of my needed applications were there, but LyX didn't work right, and none of the Void developers had any interest in fixing it. The problems were entirely on the LaTeX side.
Void is a rolling release and a couple days ago they shipped LyX 2.2.0. During the install I saw a message about all sorts of tlmgr stuff you have to install. So I copied and pasted it into a shellscript, as follows: ==================================================================== tlmgr install algorithm2e algorithms apacite bbding bezos bibtopic tlmgr install breakurl covington csquotes diagbox endnotes enumitem tlmgr install epstopdf esint eurosym feyn fragments framed frankenstein tlmgr install harvard hyphenat jurabib lettrine luainputenc marginnote tlmgr install mathdesign mathdots mhchem multirow nicefrac nomencl tlmgr install picinpar pict2e prettyref preview rotfloat rsfs shapepar tlmgr install sidecap splitindex symbol tex-gyre ulem units wasy wasysym tlmgr install wrapfig xargs ==================================================================== So I did the preceding as root. I first had to update my tlmgr, and also had to update profile.d/texlive.sh so it appended /opt/texlive/2016/bin/x86_64-linux to the end of the $PATH instead of 2015. I ran the shellscript, then tried to convert my book to PDF. About 4 times it errored out on lack of a package, which I just installed via tlmgr install. Then it worked. So if any of you is using LyX on Void Linux, I think there's a lot more hope than initially appears. SteveT Steve Litt June 2016 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb
