On 09/13/2011 10:01 AM, Wolfgang Engelmann wrote:
Could somebody who uses Debian squeeze and texlive2011 share his
experience installing it with me (and others)?. Where is texlive
installed and how do I make sure that lyx is using it (and also other
programs which use tex/latex such as xfig etc), i.e. the Path setting?
At the moment I have downloaded the unx.tar.gz package, which is
waiting to be unpacked and further manipulated.
I am using wheezy, not squeeze (the "testing" distribution rather than
the stable), but texlive has always been trivial to install, and is a
big improvement over the previous version of tex that came with debian
(whose name I forgot).
Just don't install tarballs on top of the distribution and expect it all
to work together. The better approach would be to just install texlive
and lyx, both using the package management system (which has several
interfaces, from the minimal dpkg to synaptic. I use apt, which helps
me keep things up to date without it being too busy.
I haven't worried about paths in years.
The only reason to install something other than is what comes with the
distribution is to get new bells and whistles. With lyx, the build
process automatically finds the stuff it needs, and if it doesn't,
something serious is wrong. You may have to install a lot of packages
to get lyx compiled, which is why the package management is easier.
Wheezy, at least, is up to 2.0.0 with lyx.
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