2007/6/13, Helge Hafting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Ares wrote: > As announced, I am back with a new, stupid question on LyX under > GNU/Linux. I will ask it again since the question got lost in the > previous thread. It concerns tetex package installation. I'll ask it > as a dummy windows user. > > when I was under windows (a long, long time ago), when exporting to > pdf from LyX, I was prompted by LyX to install missing packages and, > if I had an internet connection, everything worked smoothly. > Now under GNU/Linux do I have to install missing packages manually (I > know how to do it - more or less)? but then the question is: is there > a way to download all new files from command line in one step? > > thanks in advance for the sympathetic advices... This depends on what linux distribution you use - I don't know the details of them all. Pleace specify that the next time you ask a linux install question.
you're right ... I am on Ubuntu 7.04 and just installed LyX 1.4.3-2ubuntu1 from the synaptic package manager from system menu. I'll try apt-get
Debian and ubuntu certainly lets you install everything you need with one command: apt-get install <list of package names here> Debian example: apt-get install texlive-full lyx imagemagick xpdf This will install the packages mentioned, as well as any other packages these packages need to work. The above command might pull in 50 packages or so. You are probably using some other distribution, seeing that you ask about tetex. On debian, texlive is a replacement for tetex, as tetex is being phased out. Most other distributions use the rpm packaging system. It is a long time since I used those - one usually had to download lots of rpm files and then give a command to install them all. The main difference from the "apt" command above was that you had to gather the files yourself, and then install all in one go. rpm would then tell you if anything else was missing, then you download that and try again until you have all you need. I have heard that the rpm-based systems also have automatic downloading these days, simplifying this process. Helge Hafting
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