Re: Missing basic packages in fresh LyX installation

2008-12-18 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Michael Johnson wrote: Paul wrote: 2. There's a port of the MiKTeX package manager for Linux. Last I checked it still lacked a graphical interface, so you have to run it from a terminal. The advantage is that you can install individual packages as needed. Note that, unlike MiKTeX on Window

Re: Missing basic packages in fresh LyX installation

2008-12-17 Thread Michael Johnson
Paul wrote: > TeXLive takes some adjusting to for us MiKTeX users. :-) Whereas > MiKTeX bundles most of the LaTeX packages individually, TeXLive bundles > clusters of them in one package. For instance, subfigure is in > texlive-latex-extra (as are wrapfig and nomencl). > Ah, this is making mor

Re: Missing basic packages in fresh LyX installation

2008-12-14 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > Unfortunately, it's still not available from the Ubuntu repositories. > One can of course install it manually (if one knows what one is doing). I always use the official media (DVD) from the TUG, which is trivial to install (the only problem is getting your distro package m

Re: Missing basic packages in fresh LyX installation

2008-12-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: TeXLive 2008 has a package manager as well, including a GUI, that lets you install and update individual packages. The only thing it doesn't, as opposed to MikTeX PM, is on-the-fly-installing. Unfortunately, it's still not available from the Ubuntu repositories.

Re: Missing basic packages in fresh LyX installation

2008-12-14 Thread Jürgen Spitzmüller
Paul A. Rubin wrote: > TeXLive takes some adjusting to for us MiKTeX users.  :-)  Whereas > MiKTeX bundles most of the LaTeX packages individually, TeXLive bundles > clusters of them in one package.  For instance, subfigure is in > texlive-latex-extra (as are wrapfig and nomencl). This is of cours

Re: Missing basic packages in fresh LyX installation

2008-12-14 Thread Paul A. Rubin
peppergrower wrote: I'm used to TeXnicCenter and MikTex on Windows, but I decided to give LyX (1.55) a try on my Ubuntu 8.10 system, and I'm having difficulty creating PDFs. When I run pdflatex from within LyX, it keeps saying I'm missing basic packages: like subfigure, and wrapfig, and nomencl.

Missing basic packages in fresh LyX installation

2008-12-13 Thread peppergrower
missing here? Many thanks, peppergrower -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/Missing-basic-packages-in-fresh-LyX-installation-tp1653651p1653651.html Sent from the LyX - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.