[SOLVED] How do I install LYX without the 700mb+ of dependencies?

William (Dthdealer) · 06-20-2010, 06:13 AM

Hey guys,

I tried to install Lyx today, but because of the massive overhead I decided to install it without its 'recommended' packages. From previous experience some of these packages were just the same font in different sizes that rendered font selected in other word processing applications tiresome as I scrolled through the list.

Code:

apt-get install lyx --no-install-recommends

Only 8mb of disk space was needed! But at a cost.

Although AFAIK as a user that has only spent fives minutes at LYX ( 4 of which gawking at how easy it is to write mathematical symbols in ) the segment that does not work is the 'rendering' where I cannot export as dvi, pdf etc.

When I open a document, I get this error:

Quote:

The layout file requested by this document,
article.layout
is not usable. This is probably because a LaTeX class or style file required by it is not
available. See the Customization documentation for more information.
LyX will not be able to produce output.

What packages are absolutely necessary for LyX to work at a bare minimum? My monthly Internet usage is capped, and 700mb is a massive blow to it.

By the way, the documentation it recommends me to read ( 'Customisation' ) contains information applicable to creating new layouts and/or why I do not have someone else's layout that this document requires. It is obvious however that 'article.layout' is a standard component, and is probably inside on of the many recommended packages.

Thanks in advance if anyone can help me.

EDIT: Corrections

The download of recommended packages is ~ 400mb, but once extracted is ~700mb. That is still a large download for my internet connection currently.

Code:

The following NEW packages will be installed:
  dvipng lacheck latex-beamer latex-xcolor libt1-5 lmodern luatex lyx pgf
  preview-latex-style prosper ps2eps psutils texlive-base texlive-binaries
  texlive-common texlive-doc-base texlive-extra-utils texlive-font-utils
  texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended-doc
  texlive-generic-recommended texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-base-doc
  texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-extra-doc texlive-latex-recommended
  texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-luatex texlive-pictures
  texlive-pictures-doc texlive-pstricks texlive-pstricks-doc tipa ttf-lyx
0 upgraded, 35 newly installed, 0 to remove and 37 not upgraded.
Need to get 428MB/431MB of archives.
After this operation, 707MB of additional disk space will be used.

business_kid · 06-20-2010, 11:28 AM

Lyx uses tetex and if you hadn't installed that, the overhead could be considerable.
The sad fact is, that if you don't put the ingredients in, you won't get the same cake. Have you seen scribus?

William (Dthdealer) · 06-21-2010, 02:58 AM

Currently I'm trying this

Code:

apt-get install texlive --no-install-recommends

This chops the 400mb down to 111mb, a good quarter of an hour on my connection ( 15kb/s max on apt-downloads ) rather than the 8 hours expected for the whole shebang.

William (Dthdealer) · 06-21-2010, 03:53 AM

Success! I'm a happy Linuxer now.

business_kid · 06-22-2010, 05:03 AM

Why. What changed?

William (Dthdealer) · 06-24-2010, 03:38 AM

I was able to install LyX with full functionality with about a quarter of the required download size that is normally needed with a normal apt-get install lyx

I simply did a

Code:

apt-get install texlive --no-install-recommends
apt-get install lyx --no-install-recommends

The cruft I am mainly talking about is extra fonts and templates/layouts as far as I know. Without texlive I cannot render any LyX documents.

Technically 'recommends' are not 'dependencies', however some such as in this case are really necessary.