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LyXOnDebian

Installation

If you're running Debian, just type:

 apt-get install lyx

This will install the packages lyx-common and lyx and you're set!

Versions

• lenny (stable): 1.5.5
• lenny-bpo: 1.6.7
• squeeze (testing): 1.6.7
• sid (unstable): 1.6.7

Please report Debian specific (packaging) bugs to the Debian Bug Tracking System. A list of currently reported bugs is available at http://bugs.debian.org/src:lyx

The official LyX Debian package group wiki site is here: http://wiki.debian.org/PkgLyx - follow the progress or join us and help!

The backported packages for Lenny are available from backports.org. Please read the instructions on how to use this service.

Small or all inclusive installation?

If you'd like to get a small installation only with the bare minimum of packages you should try to install LyX with

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

This will only install LyX with it's bare minimal requirements.

If you'd like to get most out of LyX you should take a look at the packages listed in the 'Suggests' stanza of the Debian package with

   apt-cache show lyx|grep Suggests

and maybe install one or more of them along with LyX. The most needed packages here are texlive-latex-extra and texlive-science which contain some LaTeX classes required for several examples and the documentation. If you'd like to install only texlive-latex-extra without the recommended documentation consider to pass the --no-install-recommends option to your apt-get install command. Starting with LyX 1.6.1 texlive-latex-extra has been moved up to 'Recommends' and with 1.6.6 texlive-science moved aswell.

HTML output

To convert your documents to HTML you can install a specific package called eLyXer:

   apt-get install elyxer

And then reconfigure LyX. Two new options should appear: View -> HTML and File -> Export -> HTML. eLyXer is an independently-developed package, and reports, suggestions, etcetera should go to its own mailing list(approve sites).

There are other packages that provide similar functionality, but they are not LyX-specific and the conversion process goes through LaTeX.

Build your own LyX

Get the sources either as a tarball (see http://www.lyx.org/Download) or fresh from the SVN.

Dependencies

Build dependencies do not change that quickly, so you will meet most (or all) of them with

# apt-get build-dep lyx

Configure, Make, Install

See Compiling

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