On 20.06.08, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote: > There are two items where I am not sure I know enough.
> One is the hardware prerequisites. There are a few remarks in the web, > but not much detailled hints. I do realize that it depends much on what > one plans to do (text only versus many figures, presentations (powerdot > and the like) with large figures etc). I do not know about the minimum, but LyX 1.5.5 runs well on my modest work PC * with 250 MB RAM (whereof LyX uses ca. 8 MB) * a Pentium III @ 650 MHz * as part of a Linux installation on a 4GB partition Generally, the LaTeX installation needs a lot more space than LyX itself. packages lyx + lyx common: ~ 38MB my texmf tree (with quite some extra stuff): ~ 240MB > Secondly, dependencies on other software. This is listed at: http://www.lyx.org/AdditionalSoftware with the categories 1. 1. Required Software 2. 2. Optional Software 3. 3. Special support for specific languages and scripts Günter
