Installing LyX

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Windows XP

I have installed LyX under windows XP by following the instructions at

http://wiki.lyx.org/Windows/WindowsSetup

These instructions point to all the right software you have to install first. You will end up with the latest version, 1.4.1.

As there are some bugs in version 1.4.1, you should probably also co-install version 1.3.7 (ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/bin/1.3.7/), which I have done. You can do this co-installation as long as you direct the co-lyx installation into a folder with a different name. As 1.3.7 can use all the same other software, you need only install lyx1.3.7.

While installing lyx (either version), you will be asked about the other software you have likely just installed. You may have to locate the right folder for the 1.3.7 installation to aid it to find your already installed software. Most of it is in C:/Program Files. I did not install perl.

You should go through the Tutorial and the User's Guide for lyx (under the Help tool set).

-- Art Westerberg - 05 Jul 2006

Linux

LyX is readily available for all the big distros. You can get LyX RPMs from the Fedora Core respositories and these run without a hitch on FC3 and newer. Make sure that you install the dependencies: tetex, kdvi, pdflatex, etc.

On Fedora Core 4, you should be able to install LyX and the required prerequisites LyX by typing

yum install tetex lyx

On Ubuntu 6.10, the required prerequisitive come from typing

apt-get install lyx tetex lmodern

We have also successfully used LyX 1.4.3 on FC5, FC6 and Ubuntu 5.10 and 6.06.