On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Bob Alvarez <cobol...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am installing Lyx 1.6.9 on a Macbook Air OSX 10.6 . Looking through the > instructions I was dismayed to see that I may have to install the 1.6 GB > MacTex package. This machine only has a 64 GB drive so this is quite a lot > of overhead not to mention that the download will take many hours on my > basic DSL connection. > > The Wiki suggests BasicTex but this thread suggests that is a bad idea > http://www.mail-archive.com/lyx-users@lists.lyx.org/msg78404.html > > Questions: > 1. Has anyone had success installing and using Lyx with BasicTex (I am > mainly interested in koma-script article document class)? > > 2. Any ideas on using an external USB drive to hold the installation package > and then selecting the components I need for Lyx? > > 3. Any other ideas on how to reduce the drive space requirement?
I haven't used BasicTeX myself, but I believe it will work together with TeX Live Utility.app, which will allow you selectively to add other LaTeX packages that BasicTeX itself does not include. It may be a pain to track down packages you need but don't have and then to install them, but if you're willing to put in that effort, BasicTeX may be for you. I believe (2) will not work: when installing the full MacTeX package, it's pretty much all or nothing. (But I'm going from memory of something I didn't pay attention to when installing MacTeX a long time ago.) BH
