Re: Minimal LyX installation

[Paul A. Rubin]

Gunnar wrote:
What is the bare minimum for a LyX installation if the only thing that should 
be done is writing new LyX documents and producing pdf's?

LyX, LaTeX, ghostscript, what else? As I remember, the LyX installer installed 
both Perl and Python. Will LyX work without them?

The reason for asking is that the amount of installed software should be kept 
at a minimum.


Perl is not needed unless you need to convert TeX files to LyX (or maybe 
old LyX files to newer LyX formats).  I don't have Perl installed and 
have suffered from its absence.

Python is a different story.  At least through version 1.3.7 (don't know 
about 1.4.x), a Python script is used to do graphics conversions, in 
particular (in 1.3.7) to go from DraftDVI (DVI with no images) to DVI 
(with images).  So if you want to view DVI files with images, you'll 
need Python.  I'm not sure whether it's used by the export commands (in 
particular, exporting PDF).

/Paul