LyX
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Introduction
LyX is a WHYSIWYM (what you see is what you mean) Texteditor. This article not for introducing this superb wordprocessor for the LaTeX programming language, but for documententation of common solutions around running on linux operting system (mainly ubuntu).
LyX 1.5.3
German UserGuide with pdflatex
There are [problems with the lack of the package lmodern (latin modern) in ubuntu, causing to fail pdflatex with teh error:
! Package textcomp Error: Symbol \textcurrency not provided by
See
Solution for ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install lmodern