Collected by Jan K. Labanowski, jkl@ccl.net
teTeX installation (TeX for UNIX systems) Last modified: April 15, 2000.
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1) Downloading
You need to choose some large temp dir (You will need about 50 megabytes
for downloaded files alone. But you do not need to download the files
to the same partition where you will install teTeX. In my case
I was installing using the same partition, since I had a lot of space.
I downloaded files to /usr/local/temp, and installed teTeX in
/usr/local/teTeX (the default directoru) Do not even start the installation
of teTeX if you do not have 200 MBytes free for the package.
Go to the URL:
http://theory.uwinnipeg.ca/mod_perl/tetex.pl
This is a smart script which connects you to numerous CTAN (Comprehensive
TeX Archive Network) archives so if one is busy, you can get another one.
Choose platform (I chose Sparc/Solaris), Binary distribution,
automatic, and click download teTeX. You will be given a page, with
file to download.
You have to download the General Instruction files:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jkl jkl 5342 Apr 13 14:25 ANNOUNCE
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jkl jkl 11003 Apr 13 14:26 INSTALL
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jkl jkl 312 Apr 13 14:26 VERSION
-rw-rw-r-- 1 jkl jkl 83616 Apr 13 14:26 install.sh
Then you have to download your particular binary distributaion.
In my case:
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 3831495 Apr 15 01:21 sparc-solaris.tar.gz
With other files you have 2 options:
a) you will download 4 large files which contain specific smaller
tar.gz archives. It is convenient since it saves you some typing
and since these are large files, you do not have to peek every
minute to see if transfer is done.
The large files are base.tar, doc.tar, fonts.tar, goodies.tar.
You unpack them as:
tar xvf base.tar
tar xvf doc.tar
tar xvf fonts.tar
tar xvf goodies.tar
They will usually unpack creating a long chain of subdirectories
representing the full path they had in the ftp site (these tar files
are not actually stored, but created during the transfer by the ftp
server on the remote machine). Moreover, this long chain of directories
can be different for each tar file (you are downloading them from
randomly selected CTAN archives which can have different organization
of files). You need to get the in line. For example, your paths are:
/usr/local/temp/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/distrib/base
/usr/local/temp/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/distrib/doc
/usr/local/temp/pub/packages/TeX/systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/distrib/fonts
/usr/local/temp/pub/packages/TeX/systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/distrib/goodies
you need to do the following:
cd /usr/local/temp
mv tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/distrib/base base
mv tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/distrib/doc doc
mv pub/packages/TeX/systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/distrib/fonts fonts
mv pub/packages/TeX/systems/unix/teTeX/1.0/distrib/goodies goodies
and then delete the long paths as:
rm -rf tex-archive pub
and the bulky tar archives (though if you have a lot of disk space,
I would wait with it to the very end, when you are sure, you do not need
them):
tar xvf base.tar
tar xvf doc.tar
tar xvf fonts.tar
tar xvf goodies.tar
GO TO 2) Unpacking/Installing (skip b below).
b) you will download each file separately. In this case, you need to
put them where they belong:
cd /usr/local/temp
mkdir base
mv latex-base.tar.gz tetex-base.tar.gz base
mkdir doc
mv catalogue.tar.gz faqs.tar.gz info.tar.gz man.tar.gz doc
mkdir fonts
mv ae.tar.gz ams.tar.gz blackboard.tar.gz \
concrete.tar.gz ec.tar.gz hplj.tar.gz misc-mf.tar.gz \
sauter.tar.gz yandy.tar.gz fonts
mkdir goodies
mv context.tar.gz cyrillic.tar.gz drawing.tar.gz fontinst.tar.gz \
greek.tar.gz latex-extra.tar.gz metapost.tar.gz \
misc-macros.tar.gz omega.tar.gz polish.tar.gz
2) Unpacking/Installing
Your directory /usr/local/temp should now look something like below.
Pay you have to have the binary (in my case: sparc-solaris.tar.gz) in
your top directory (here: /usr/local/temp).
ls -lR
.:
total 127410
-rw-r--r-- 1 jkl appl 5342 Apr 14 20:14 ANNOUNCE
-rw-r--r-- 1 jkl appl 11003 Apr 14 20:14 INSTALL
-rw-r--r-- 1 jkl appl 312 Apr 14 20:14 VERSION
drwxrwxr-x 2 14001 451 512 Apr 15 00:28 base
drwxrwxr-x 2 14001 451 512 Apr 15 00:29 doc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 512 Apr 15 00:30 fonts
drwxr-xr-x 2 root bin 512 Apr 15 00:31 goodies
-rw-r--r-- 1 jkl appl 83616 Apr 14 20:29 install.sh
-rw-r--r-- 1 root other 3831495 Apr 15 01:21 sparc-solaris.tar.gz
./base:
total 20752
-rw-rw-r-- 1 14001 451 2473567 Jan 31 23:31 latex-base.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 14001 451 8131552 Feb 12 07:32 tetex-base.tar.gz
./doc:
total 2306
-rw-rw-r-- 1 14001 451 280530 Feb 1 00:52 catalogue.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 14001 451 397933 Jan 31 23:31 faqs.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 14001 451 390637 Jul 6 1999 info.tar.gz
-rw-rw-r-- 1 14001 451 74306 Jul 6 1999 man.tar.gz
./fonts:
total 7958
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 104773 Jul 7 1999 ae.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 958498 Jul 7 1999 ams.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 88874 Jul 7 1999 blackboard.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 42767 Jul 7 1999 concrete.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 189700 Jul 7 1999 ec.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 308202 Jul 7 1999 hplj.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 1042898 Jul 7 1999 misc-mf.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 496332 Jul 7 1999 misc-type1.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 59082 Jul 7 1999 sauter.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 690173 Jul 7 1999 yandy.tar.gz
./goodies:
total 33966
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 4392471 Jul 7 1999 context.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 1665390 Jul 7 1999 cyrillic.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 2138611 Jul 7 1999 drawing.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 131089 Jul 7 1999 fontinst.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 71718 Jul 7 1999 greek.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 4583144 Jul 7 1999 latex-extra.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 623957 Jul 7 1999 metapost.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 292896 Jul 7 1999 misc-macros.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 1409842 Jul 7 1999 omega.tar.gz
-r--r--r-- 1 root bin 1950880 Jul 7 1999 polish.tar.gz
Now you need to set the instal.sh file execute bits:
chmod a+x install.sh
and execute it:
./install.sh
after hitting return, you as asked what to do
I accepted defaults and hit I (continue installation).
Then it asked me about extra subdirectory in bin. I said Yes,
Do you want to omit the extra subdirectory (Y/N)? Y
You should choose this option if you install TeX only for the single
machine, and single operating system. If you install for many machines,
you better do not read this simplistic description, and study the
READMEs and INSTALLs in the original distribution.
Then, you can go and have a cup of coffee, since the script will
be unpacking all these files and puting them where they belong
(in my case, under /usr/local/teTeX).
3) Final touches.
You need to either put the /usr/local/teTeX/bin in your path
or make links to /usr/local/bin
I decided to APPEND(!!!) the following:
a) to /etc/profile file::
PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/teTeX/bin
export PATH
if [ "$MANPATH = "" ]; then
MANPATH=/usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/teTex/man
else
MANPATH=${MANPATH}:/usr/local/teTeX/man
fi
export MANPATH
b) to /etc/.login file
setenv PATH ${PATH}:/usr/local/teTeX/bin
if (${?MANPATH}) then
setenv MANPATH ${MANPATH}:/usr/local/teTeX/man
else
setenv MANPATH /usr/share/man:/usr/local/man:/usr/local/teTex/man
endif
Then I logged out and logged in again to see if the PATHs were set
by doing:
echo $PATH
echo $MANPATH
I ran:
texconfig init
texconfig confall
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