unfortunately further problems occured. I filed a bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lyx/+bug/521932

Christoph

thank you for sharing this information!

Stefan

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Not real familiar with equivs, but it looks to me as if you are running into this bit from the Debian Policy Manual http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html

From Section 7.5 Virtual packages - Provides
…
“If a relationship field has a version number attached then only real packages will be considered to see whether the relationship is satisfied (or the prohibition violated, for a conflict or breakage) - it is assumed that a real package which provides the virtual package is not of the “right” version. So, a Provides field may not contain version numbers, and the version number of the concrete package which provides a particular virtual package will not be looked at when considering a dependency on or conflict with the virtual package name. ”

One Lyx’s dependencies is lyx-common, which has this dependeny:
$ apt-cache show lyx-common |grep Depend
Depends: dpkg (>= 1.14.18), tex-common (>= 1.18), python, python-support
(>= 0.90.0)

lyx-common specifically depends on a version of tex-common >=1.18. According to the policy stated above, when dpkg sorts out the dependencies, it’s going to prefer a “real” package over a virtual one if a dependency lists a specific version number.

I guess one way to solve this problem would be to create and install a dummy tex-common package. I assume that’s possible to do with the equivs program, though I’m unsure on the specific steps to accomplish it.
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sktsee is right. Building a tex-common dummy with the following control file solved the problem:

Section: tex
Package: tex-common
Version: 1.18
Provides: tex-common
Description: tex-common dummy package
This package provides dpkg with the information that tex-common >= 1.18 is installed.

dvipdfmx, dvipng, lacheck, latex-beamer, latex-xcolor, pgf, preview-latex-style, psutils, tex-common, texlive-base, texlive-base-bin, texlive-base-bin-doc, texlive-common, texlive-doc-base, texlive-extra-utils, texlive-fonts-recommended, texlive-fonts-recommended-doc, texlive-generic-extra, texlive-generic-recommended, texlive-humanities, texlive-humanities-doc, texlive-latex-base, texlive-latex-base-doc, texlive-latex-extra, texlive-latex-extra-doc, texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-latex-recommended-doc, texlive-pictures, texlive-pictures-doc, texlive-pstricks, texlive-pstricks-doc, tipa

But if I want to install LyX APT still wants to install tex-common.

Best
Christoph

Section: tex
Package: texlive-dummy
Provides: texlive-latex-base, asymptote,
asymptote-doc, context, dblatex, dvipdfmx, dvipng, feynmf, guile-1.8, lacheck,
latex-beamer, latex-xcolor, latex2html, libsigsegv0, lilypond, lilypond-data,
lilypond-doc, lmodern, luatex, pgf, preview-latex-style, prosper, ps2eps,
tex4ht, tex4ht-common, texlive, texlive-base, texlive-base-bin,
texlive-base-bin-doc, texlive-common, texlive-doc-base, texlive-extra-utils,
texlive-font-utils, texlive-fonts-recommended, texlive-fonts-recommended-doc,
texlive-generic-extra, texlive-generic-recommended, texlive-humanities,
texlive-humanities-doc, texlive-lang-cyrillic, texlive-latex-base,
texlive-latex-base-doc, texlive-latex-extra, texlive-latex-extra-doc,
texlive-latex-recommended, texlive-latex-recommended-doc, texlive-math-extra,
texlive-metapost, texlive-metapost-doc, texlive-pictures,
texlive-pictures-doc, texlive-pstricks, texlive-pstricks-doc, texlive-xetex,
tipa
Description: texlive dummy package
This package provides dpkg with the information that
there is the package texlive-latex-base installed.

thank you for your contribution! I’ve just read your comment after that test and submission of my ctl file and the output.
It seems your way doesn’t require the apt-get option –no-install-recommends.

Stefan

on Jaunty there are indeed more dependencies for Kile. I’ve made a new Jaunty installation today and checked it. Kile depends on texlive-base-bin, texlive-latex-base and recommends texlive-metapost, texlive-xetex and more. They are depending on even more packages. Your solution is complete, but less packages would be sufficient.

For instance you could install Kile without recommended packages and select really needed dependencies.

I’ve tested this control file for equivs:

Section: tex
Package: texlive-dummy
Provides: tex-common, texlive-common, texlive-latex-base, texlive-metapost, texlive-xetex, texlive-base-bin, texlive-base-bin-doc
Description: texlive dummy package
This package provides dpkg with the
information that there are certain tex
packages installed.

After processing with equivs and dpkg I’ve called apt-get this way:

sudo apt-get --no-install-recommends install kile

The end of the output was:

The following NEW packages will be installed:
kde-icons-oxygen kdebase-runtime kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4
kdebase-runtime-data kdebase-runtime-data-common kdelibs-bin kdelibs5
kdelibs5-data kile konsole libaudio2 libclucene0ldbl libexiv2-5
libmodplug0c2 libmpcdec3 libphonon4 libqt4-dbus libqt4-designer
libqt4-network libqt4-qt3support libqt4-script libqt4-sql libqt4-svg
libqt4-xml libqtcore4 libqtgui4 libraptor1 librasqal1 librdf0 libsoprano4
libstreamanalyzer0 libstreams0 libxcb-shape0 libxcb-shm0 libxcb-xv0 libxine1
libxine1-bin libxine1-console libxine1-misc-plugins libxine1-x
phonon-backend-xine soprano-daemon
0 upgraded, 42 newly installed, 0 to remove and 151 not upgraded.
Need to get 47.1MB of archives.
After this operation, 154MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?

As you can see texlive packages would not be installed. Also imagemagick is not needed.

Stefan

Section: tex
Package: texlive-dummy
Provides: texlive-base-bin, texlive-latex-base, asymptote, context, dblatex, dvipdfmx, dvipng, ghostscript, jabref, latex2html, lilypond, tex4ht, texlive-metapost, texlive-xetex, ktexmaker2
Description: texlive dummy package
This package provides dpkg with the information that
there is the package texlive-latex-base installed.