On 6/8/07, Ares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
2007/6/8, Bob Lounsbury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 6/8/07, Ares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have all repositories enabled and I can't see LyX. I have Ubuntu > > 7.04. I'll try apt-get install lyx instead... > > > > -- > > Diego > > http://www.ares001.altervista.org/ > > > > > You did hit the "Reload" button in Synaptic after enabling the repositories > correct? This is the only thing I think of that would cause LyX to not show > up. > > Bob > I put a couple of screenshots here http://ares001.altervista.org/images/Screenshot-Add-Remove_Applications.png and here http://ares001.altervista.org/images/Screenshot-Software_Sources.png as far as I can see I open the Add/Remove... applet (fig 1), press Preferences button to show the Software Sources panel (fig2) where "universe" box is already checked, so the Apply button is disabled when I close back... and LyX is not there yet... please notice that this is not a problem to me (since I managed to install LyX very easily from the command line) but a problem for LyX (which won't show up for Ububntu users)! BTW how do you manage LaTeX packages in GNU/Linux? I mean what is the equivalent of MiKTeX package manager in Windows? Regards, -- Diego http://www.ares001.altervista.org/
Rather than using the Add/Remove applet use the Synaptic Package Manager (a gui frontend for apt-get) which should be under System->Administration->Synaptic. The Add/Remove applet only has a small subset of predefined packages that "work well" with Ubuntu. The Synaptic manager will have close to 20,000 packages and LyX will definitely be one of them. Most LaTeX packages are included with tetex or texlive which you'll also find in the Synaptic manager (tetex was probably installed by default when you did "apt-get install lyx"). For odd packages that you need generally ctan is your friend and you can set up a texmf directory under your home directory for these odd packages. Then run 'sudo texhash' from command line and reconfigure LyX and all is good in the world. Good luck, Bob
