On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 7:40 PM, Scott Kostyshak <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Liviu Andronic <[email protected]> > wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 10:24 AM, Liviu Andronic <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2015 at 8:23 AM, Vincent van Ravesteijn <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> To compile the User's guide, I had to manually install the package >>>> "texlive-esint-type1". >>>> >>>> Shouldn't this be installed automatically when the lyx package is >>>> installed ? I'm now at OpenSuse. Do other distros do install this >>>> package ? >>>> >>> No. It doesn't work like this in most Linux distros. >>> >>> While on Windows we have the nicely packaged MiKTeX, which can >>> willy-nilly install packages "on-the-fly", on Linux the process is >>> much more manual. Most distros use very inflexible LaTeX distributions >>> that don't come with the default, internal package manager. So as a >>> user you have to spot the exact LaTeX package missing, find the >>> associated distro package that contains it (if any), and install that. >>> >> Actually I stand corrected. As it turns out, Debian (hence all >> derivatives, including Ubuntu) seems to have recently had a change of >> heart and is now shipping `tlmgr`: >> http://askubuntu.com/questions/485514/how-to-properly-install-and-use-texlive-with-package-manager-in-14-04 >> >> I'm not yet sure how useful it is, but at this point we might want to >> investigate how LyX could communicate with `tlmgr` (if detected in the >> TeXLive installation), in ways similar to MiKTeX on Windows. We might >> also want to check if non-Debian distros ship TeXLive's internal >> manager. >> >> Scott, do you have any experience with the `tlmgr` in Ubuntu 14.04? Is >> this comparable in functionality to your `install-tl-ubuntu` script? > > I ran into a similar error as that user and the fixes at the time did > not work for me. The solution there worked for the user so that's > good. Hopefully it will work even more easily in the next Ubuntu > version. > The fix worked for me here: sudo apt-get install xzdec perl-tk tlmgr init-usertree
Then for instance : tlmgr --gui tlmgr info frletter However, something seems to be off-sync: geek@liv-inspiron:~$ tlmgr update --list (running on Debian, switching to user mode!) tlmgr: package repository http://ctan.mines-albi.fr/systems/texlive/tlnet tlmgr: no updates available Is this the issue that you're seeing? I'm wondering if it's linked to this: http://askubuntu.com/questions/486170/upgrade-from-tex-live-from-2013-to-2014-on-ubuntu-14-04 "Even worse, the TeXLive 2013 version included in Ubuntu stopped working with tlmgr: tlmgr: The TeX Live versions supported by the repository [...] (2014--2014) do not include the version of the local installation (2013)." Liviu > Scott > >> >> Regards, >> Liviu >> >> >>> That's why we come up with things like: >>> https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu >>> >>> Regards, >>> Liviu >>> >>> >>>> How can we inform the distros that this package is required ? >>>> >>>> Vincent >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Do you think you know what math is? >>> http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 >>> Or what it means to be intelligent? >>> http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 >>> Think again: >>> http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library >> >> >> >> -- >> Do you think you know what math is? >> http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 >> Or what it means to be intelligent? >> http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 >> Think again: >> http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library -- Do you think you know what math is? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/ian-stewart-2013-08-02 Or what it means to be intelligent? http://www.ideasroadshow.com/issues/john-duncan-2013-08-30 Think again: http://www.ideasroadshow.com/library
