Installing LyX 2.3.6.1 on Linux MInt 20.3 with TeXLive 2021

[Kees Zeelenberg (kzStats)]

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: lyx-users <lyx-users-bounces at lists.lyx.org> Namens Graeme via
lyx-users
> Verzonden: vrijdag 4 maart 2022 00:00
> Aan: lyx-users List <lyx-users at lists.lyx.org>
> Onderwerp: Installing LyX 2.3.6.1 on Linux MInt 20.3 with TeXLive 2021
> 
> c) Is there a way to install LyX 2.3.6.1 without installing the TeXLive
> 2019 dependencies? (I'd prefer not to have to compile LyX 2.3.6.1 from
> source.)

You could follow the advice at https://tug.org/texlive/debian.html#vanilla
(Mint is a derivative of Ubuntu, which itself is a derivative of Debian),
and build a dummy package for texlive (2019), which tricks the Mint Package
Manager and the LyX installer into believing texlive is installed.
I think you can also use 2021 instead of 2019 for this dummy package if
texlive-2021 is not installed from a deb-package.

Kees