Lyx: what do I need to install to get it working properly?

[bjhkjhkrdjbv]

I have used LyX under Win XP for a large project and now want to continue using it on Linux but I run into weird problems when trying to create pdfs with it. I solved some of them by installing missing parts of TeX that were in extra packages and not installed by default but problems remain, like vector graphics ending up as badly pixelated pictures in pdflatex and all other ways of making pdf blocked by errors about too large numbers and too big images (opening the same lyx file with LyX on WinXP works fine and creates a good pdf).

What packages do I need to install in order to get the full functionality that the standard installation of LyX for Windows has?

[killer de bug]

I would install

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texlive-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-latex-base texlive-base 

and depending on your language, you can chose which one you want:

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texlive-lang-english

[bjhkjhkrdjbv]

Thank you.
I see I have all of these and quite a few more. I could try "texlive-full" but it contains lots of stuff I certainly don't need, weighs two gigabytes (a lot on a 16GB system partition) and can't be installed anyway because it hangs on a damaged half finished download. Any other ideas what it could be?

[killer de bug]

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 Here are some more packages NOT listed as "recommended" or "suggested" that you might want to add:

    qt4-qtconfig (allows customizing menu font/size and other parameters in LyX GUI)
    texlive (meta-package including the most common texlive packages),
    texlive-extra-utils,
    texlive-fonts-extra,
    texlive-formats-extra,
    texlive-generic-extra,
    texlive-latex-extra (here is the wrapfig latex package),
    texlive-math-extra (D. Knuth's beautiful Concrete font is here),
    texlive-science (if you use algoritm(ic) packages)
    texlive-lang-xyz (xyz is your local language which you can get from LANG) 

http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/LyXOnUbuntu

[bjhkjhkrdjbv]

Thank you.
I now have all of these and texlive-full too and it doesn't help the problem. I have asked the LyX mailing list too. I will update here if they have a solution.

[killer de bug]

Just to be sure, are you sure all LyX package are installed?

Do you have lyx-common installed?

[bjhkjhkrdjbv]

Yes. LyX is dependent on it.