Am Mittwoch, dem 23.04.2025 um 09:30 +0200 schrieb Guido Milanese: > I know that this question is not new, but I was not able to find a > suitable answer. I installed a complete TeXLive 2025 distribution on > Linux Mint 22.1. For several reasons, I installed TeX from TeX > repositories and not from the Mint package manager. Trying to install > LyX I see that the deb package will install a second version of TeX - > - even with option "--no-install-recommends" another minimal TeX > version will be installed. If the only way of escape is to > compile the sources I can do it, of course, but I would be grateful > to know if there are other ways to avoid compilation (just because > this requires a large amount of libraries I will probably never use > again).
I don't know whether there is a suitable one for Linux Mint, but for several distributions, so called "texlive-dummy" packages exist which pretend to the package manager that the texlive package is installed (negligible 404KB of size in the case of texlive-dummy-opensuse). Here is also an explanation on how to create such a dummy package on Ubuntu, which might help to solve your case if no ready-made package exists: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/95373/19291 HTH, -- Jürgen -- lyx-users mailing list lyx-users@lists.lyx.org https://lists.lyx.org/mailman/listinfo/lyx-users
