You can extend the functionality of LyX by installing these packages: * chktex: check for typographical errors * gnuhtml2latex: import HTML documents * groff: improved table formatting in plain text exports * librsvg2-bin, inkscape: use the SVG image format in LyX documents * linuxdoc-tools: export SGML LinuxDoc documents * mythes-*: use the OpenOffice. It is also possible to use LaTeX commands within LyX, so nothing of LaTeX's power is lost. On Debian or Ubuntu: sudo apt-get install lyx On Fedora or CentOS: sudo yum install lyx Note that the EPEL repository must be configured on your CentOS system before you are able to install LyX using yum. Since LyX supports LaTeX's concept of general mark-ups, it is even easier and faster to create professional quality documents with it than with usual word processors. It makes the power and typesetting quality of LaTeX available for people who are used to word processors. LyX is an almost WYSIWYG-frontend for LaTeX. Meanwhile, until the bug is fixed, there is a simple workaround Workaroundīefore installing, execute sudo touch /etc/texmf/updmap.d/10local.cfgĪnd now the regular sudo make install installation should finish successfully.Īs the problem is a result of a Debian bug, I don’t expect to release a new version of culmus-latex, instead I’ll report the bug to the Debian team.Install lyx by entering the following commands in the terminal: sudo apt update Thus updmap exists with error code 2, instead of completing the installation. If such file doesn’t exist, instead of creating one (as the maintainers of debianize-updmap intended) it fails due to the set -e in /usr/bin/updmap. To check if there is a local configuration file under /etc/texmf/updmap.d. Localfile='`ls $debDirname/*local*cfg 2>/dev/null`' The pickLocalFile uses the following lines localfile=''

After some straceing I found the culprit in the combination of the set -e in the top of /usr/bin/updmap and the function pickLocalFile in /usr/share/tex-common/debianize-upddmap which overrides certain behaviors in updmap. Also there is no explicit place where it exits with return code 2 in the code. Updmap: initial config file is `/var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg'īut if you look at updmap’s manpage there is no documentation for the return codes. Updmap: using transcript file `/var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.log' Updmap: This is updmap, version $Id: updmap 14402 17:09:15Z karl $

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The problem manifests itself as: sudo make install Skip bellow if you’re just interested in the workaround. The problem have been reported in few places such as Whatsup, but as I don’t frequent the forum lately, I wasn’t aware of it. Apparently culmus-latex can’t be installed as-is on Ubuntu 11.10 (and probably other new versions of Debian and Ubuntu). After someone complained to me that he can’t install culmus-latex on Ubuntu 11.10, I decided to check the issue.

Install lyx in ubuntu