On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 4:00 PM, James A.R. Koehler <[email protected]>wrote:
> I have installed Lyx (several times!) on two Mint16 machines; one a 32-bit
> version and the other 64-bit. Mint is based on Ubuntu 13. In both cases,
> when installing either from a download from the Lyx site or via the .deb
> repository, it installs without any classes or layouts; i.e., it is not
> very useful. If I try to read the User Manual, it comes up with an error
> saying it cannot find the appropriate class to display the data. Catch 22.
>
> In previous installations on earlier distributions of Linux in other
> years, the installation was seamless and problem free. Help!
>
> Jim
Hi Jim,
I don't think I've been able to follow this discussion perfectly, but I may
still be able to help. My main machine (on which I am typing right now) is
running 64-bit Linux Mint Cinnamon 16 (Petra). I am not using any ppa's, so
I believe my version of LyX is from the regular repo's. It's version 2.0.6.
I have no trouble viewing and compiling the user's manual. Unless space is
particularly tight on your machine (or you have slow network access), I
would follow Liviu's suggestion of installing a full version of texlive. I
just checked, by running $dpkg --list | grep "texlive" to see what
packages I have installed, and I can say that my installation certainly
isn't minimal (see the attached text file for the output from my machine
using that command), but it works great. After installing any new packages,
you should open LyX, and run Tools->Reconfigure as Pavel suggested. Then,
close LyX, re-open it, and see what you get.
How does that work for you?
Jacob
dpkg --list | grep "texlive"
ii texlive-base 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: Essential programs and files
ii texlive-bibtex-extra 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: BibTeX additional styles
ii texlive-binaries 2013.20130529.30792-1ubuntu1
amd64 Binaries for TeX Live
ii texlive-extra-utils 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: TeX auxiliary programs
ii texlive-font-utils 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: Graphics and font utilities
ii texlive-fonts-recommended 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: Recommended fonts
ii texlive-fonts-recommended-doc 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-fonts-recommended
ii texlive-generic-extra 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: Generic additional packages
ii texlive-generic-recommended 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: Generic recommended packages
ii texlive-latex-base 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: LaTeX fundamental packages
ii texlive-latex-base-doc 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-latex-base
ii texlive-latex-extra 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: LaTeX additional packages
ii texlive-latex-extra-doc 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-latex-extra
ii texlive-latex-recommended 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packages
ii texlive-latex-recommended-doc 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-latex-recommended
ii texlive-luatex 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: LuaTeX packages
ii texlive-pictures 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: Graphics, pictures, diagrams
ii texlive-pictures-doc 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-pictures
ii texlive-pstricks 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: PSTricks
ii texlive-pstricks-doc 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-pstricks
ii texlive-publishers 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: Publisher styles, theses, etc.
ii texlive-science 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: Natural and computer sciences
ii texlive-science-doc 2013.20130722-1
all TeX Live: Documentation files for texlive-science
