LyX ⇒ Using lyx with MikTex on Ubuntu 18.04.4?

[kaiseryet]

Hey guys, so I just found out that there is a MikTex for Ubuntu available and chose to use it to install latex on my Ubuntu 18.04.4
The issue is that when I tried to install LyX from the lyx ppa, it still asks to install texlive -- so is it because lyx can only texlive for now? Is there a way to use it with MikTex on Ubuntu? Thanks.

[Ijon Tichy]

The issue is that when I tried to install LyX from the lyx ppa, it still asks to install texlive -- so is it because lyx can only texlive for now?

It is because of the dependencies coded in the package. The problem is similar to users of Vanilla TeX Live, that do not generate a fake/dummy package so satisfy requirements/recommends of the package management. You can participate in the PPA development to improve the situation, at least by adding a detailed report to the issue tracker (it should contain details about all installation steps you are doing and the messages you get).

[kaiseryet]

The issue is that when I tried to install LyX from the lyx ppa, it still asks to install texlive -- so is it because lyx can only texlive for now?

It is because of the dependencies coded in the package. The problem is similar to users of Vanilla TeX Live, that do not generate a fake/dummy package so satisfy requirements/recommends of the package management. You can participate in the PPA development to improve the situation, at least by adding a detailed report to the issue tracker (it should contain details about all installation steps you are doing and the messages you get).

So these are the steps I took:

```
# installed miktex for all users (administor mode)
# installed all latex packages in miktex
$ sudo apt install lyx
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following additional packages will be installed:
dvipng fonts-gfs-baskerville fonts-gfs-porson fonts-lmodern fonts-texgyre
lmodern lyx-common preview-latex-style tex-gyre texlive-base
texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-generic-extra texlive-generic-recommended
texlive-lang-greek texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra
texlive-latex-recommended texlive-pictures texlive-plain-generic
texlive-science tipa
Suggested packages:
rcs dvipost groff libtiff-tools gnuhtml2latex wv chktex noweb sgmltools-lite
linuxdoc-tools writer2latex latex2rtf librsvg2-bin | inkscape texlive-xetex
etoolbox texlive-luatex libapp-makebeamerinfo-perl latex-xcolor lyx-dbg
texlive-fonts-recommended-doc texlive-latex-base-doc python-pygments
icc-profiles libfile-which-perl libspreadsheet-parseexcel-perl
texlive-latex-extra-doc texlive-latex-recommended-doc texlive-pstricks
dot2tex prerex ruby-tcltk | libtcltk-ruby texlive-pictures-doc vprerex
texlive-science-doc
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dvipng fonts-gfs-baskerville fonts-gfs-porson fonts-lmodern fonts-texgyre
lmodern lyx lyx-common preview-latex-style tex-gyre texlive-base
texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-generic-extra texlive-generic-recommended
texlive-lang-greek texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-extra
texlive-latex-recommended texlive-pictures texlive-plain-generic
texlive-science tipa
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At this point it requires texlive-latex-base, which is the problem. So I hope they can solve the ppa issue coz I'm not the linux developing guy but rather some data scientist.

[Ijon Tichy]

We are not the issue tracker of the LyX PPA you are using. Please contact the developers.