On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Rob Oakes <lyx-de...@oak-tree.us> wrote: > The download from Ubuntu was probably a debug build. These are much > larger than the release build. You might want to contact the Ubuntu > project and let them know that the build is much larger than expected. > Liviu Andronic manages a PPA with an unofficial build, which might be > less damaging to your Internet quota > (https://launchpad.net/~lyx-devel/+archive/release). I'm not sure he's > added support for Precise Penguin, yet, though. > A version for Precise is available at my experimental PPA [1]. When I get some positive feedback on the build and/or Precise gets released, I will move it to the lyx-devel PPA.
[1] https://launchpad.net/~landronimirc/+archive/experimental > Another idea is that they may have changed the LaTeX dependencies. If > so, it might be downloading a lot of extra TeX packages that aren't needed. > I am also suspecting that your total download size contains a bunch of LaTeX dependencies. Else, see Rob's comments. Regards Liviu
