On 15. nov. 2011 19:00, Rob Oakes wrote:
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To that, I would add an additional piece of advice: compile LyX from source or
install a non-packaged binary. In Ubuntu, if you try and install LyX from the
package manager, it will download all of the associated LaTeX packages as well.
This can be a tremendous pain because you'll have two versions of everything
installed and you need to manually manage the packages.
Having two LaTeX distributions can be done (see
http://blog.oak-tree.us/index.php/2010/07/15/latex-custom for a description of
how), but it's a pain. It's much better to have a single LaTeX distribution
installed alongside LyX.
I found it easier to have two latex distributions. I have lyx and
texlive from debian, as well as a direct install of texlive-2011. There
is nothing to manage - the direct install of texlive takes precedence
because it is earlier in my PATH.
Debian's texlive waste some disk space, that's all. The advantage is
that other dependencies is satisifed automatically, such as spellchecker
and qt.
If I removed the packaged lyx, then debian might someday throw out other
stuff I need.
Helge Hafting
