[unixtex.ftp: 11 October 1995] The master version of this file is on ftp.cs.umb.edu [158.121.104.33] in pub/tex/unixtex.ftp. Mail kb@cs.umb.edu with comments or questions. ========================================================================= Consider joining the TeX Users Group (TUG): support the maintenance and development of the programs you retrieve. Send membership request to: tug@tug.org. ========================================================================= GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS ... for Unix sites wanting to install (plain) TeX, LaTeX (2e), BibTeX, Metafont, and DVI processors for any of the X window system, PostScript, and/or the PCL language in the HP LaserJet. The files mentioned below are available from any of the following: Host Internet address TeX root dir ---- ---------------- ------------ ftp.shsu.edu 192.92.115.10 /tex-archive ftp.tex.ac.uk 134.151.44.19 /tex-archive ftp.dante.de 128.69.1.12 /tex-archive For additional ftp sites, get /README.mirrors from one of the above or finger ctan@ftp.shsu.edu. These instructions use non-generic features of FTP supported by the hosts above. For details, get: /README.archive-features /README.site-commands The /tex-archive/help and /tex-archive/documentation directories on these hosts have much additional documentation on all aspects of TeX. If you don't know (for example) what Metafont is, or the relationship of LaTeX to TeX, look there. Retrieving a basic set of input files and fonts: ----------------------------------------------- ftp> cd /tex-archive/systems/web2c ftp> bi [set binary mode] ftp> get lib.tar.gz [unpacks into texmf; 2.8MB->11.5MB] This file contains a minimal collection of fonts (TFM files only, and only for Computer Modern, DC, LaTeX, Pandora, and the free PostScript fonts), base (La)TeX macros, MF macros, and BibTeX files -- enough to get started. The AMS fonts and macros are included. The LaTeX release may be out of date; for the latest, and for additional LaTeX packages; investigate /tex-archive/macros/latex. lib.tar.gz unpacks into a directory named `texmf', which you will want in your equivalent of /usr/local/lib -- whatever you will define as your $(datadir) in the Makefiles. The organization of the archive was debated at great length. We hope it will be useful. If you don't like our organization, feel free to move the files around as you see fit, not forgetting to redefine the search paths and installation directories. The Makefiles, kpathsea/HIER, kpathsea/paths.h.in, and web2c/README (``Directory hierarchies'') have more information. The organization will change to conform to the standard TeX directory structure promulgated by the TUG Working Group when the TDS is released. You must decide on your directory structure *before* doing the compilations, since you must specify default search paths, and since by default the web2c Makefile tries to create the basic .fmt and .base files, which require the .{tex,mf,tfm} input files. Retrieving web2c (that is, TeX, Metafont, and friends): ------------------------------------------------------ Still in /tex-archive/systems/web2c: ftp> get web.tar.gz [Knuth's WEB sources for TeX, MF, & family: unpacks into ./web2c-; 1.2MB->4MB] ftp> get web2c.tar.gz [WEB-to-C source: also unpacks into ./web2c- .75MB->2.7K] You must retrieve and unpack *both* web.tar.gz and web2c.tar.gz. The web2c distribution uses an older version of the path-searching library than the drivers below. For an interim patch, get the latest ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/web2c.kpathsea-2.*.help file, and read it. (I'm working on the next release of web2c as hard as I can, really.) The two versions can coexist; by using the web2c distribution as it stands, you merely lose the features added to kpathsea over the last year or so. Retrieving device drivers: ------------------------- For an X window system previewer (xdvik): ftp> cd /tex-archive/dviware/xdvik ftp> get xdvik.tar.gz [unpacks into ./xdvik-; .5MB->1.8MB] For a DVI-to-PostScript translator (dvipsk): ftp> cd /tex-archive/dviware/dvipsk ftp> get dvipsk.tar.gz [unpacks into ./dvipsk-; .7MB->2.7MB] For a DVI-to-PCL (HP LaserJet) translator (dviljk): ftp> cd /tex-archive/dviware/dviljk ftp> get dviljk.tar.gz [unpacks into ./dviljk-; .6MB->3MB] ftp> quit [end ftp session] Compilation and installation: ---------------------------- Each of these packages -- web2c, xdvik, dvipsk, dviljk -- contains its own installation instructions. It is possible to build all the programs in a single make (see the web2c.kpathsea-*.help file), but it is simpler to make them separately. Compile web2c first (i.e.,, the material in both web.tar.gz and web2c.tar.gz, unpacked, possibly patched for the most recent kpathsea -- see above, under `retrieving web2c'). For an overview, ./web2c-/README ./web2c-/kpathsea/INSTALL ./web2c-/web2c/README ./web2c-/web2c/INSTALL The INSTALL files are your guides to installation. At the simplest, you do configure && make && make install at the top level. Remember to set up your texmf directory hierarchy before embarking on your compilation (see `For a basic set of input files and fonts' above). After installation, if basic input files such as plain.tex aren't being found, or if the file searching is very slow, read kpathsea/INSTALL from one of the *k driver distributions. (This is much more recent than kpathsea/INSTALL from web2c.) All installation processes require careful attention to detail, and knowledge of your system. Festina lente -- make haste slowly -- and you improve your chances of success. ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/*.help describe some common problems with the current version of web2c. Here's some more: -- Contrary to what the web2c installation instructions imply, you must use configure --prefix=/your/tex/root instead of editing the prefix in the Makefile(s). (Editing does work in some cases, but not all.) -- configure does not always guess the type of yytext properly; the symptom will be compiler errors involving yytext. Replace the line `DECLARE_YYTEXT' in web2c-6.1/web2c/web2c.h with the right thing. See web2c.yytext.help. -- If the compiler complains about something involving foil_x_wchar_t, try make CFLAGS="-g -DNO_FOIL_X_WCHAR_T" (for web2c); or make CFLAGS="-g -DFOIL_X_WCHAR_T" (for everything else). -- I messed up and declared alloca in web2c/web2c/web2c.h. Just delete the declaration. ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/web2c.alloca.help does this. -- make clean removes *.pool in web2c/tex and web2c/mf. Use make distclean or make mostlyclean instead. Or edit tex/Makefile and mf/Makefile to remove *.pool at distclean instead of clean. ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/web2c.pool.help does this. (You must apply this patch before web2c.kpathsea-2.6.help.) Distribution on tape and CD/ROM: ------------------------------- For TeX on a single tape (4mm DAT or QIC-24), ordering information is available from unixtex@u.washington.edu. A distribution fee of US$210.00 is requested to cover administrative costs. The Free Software Foundation distributes the minimal TeX system described here on CD/ROM. Write gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu or finger fsf@prep.ai.mit.edu for info. The 4allTeX CD-ROM comes from the NTG, the Dutch-speaking TeX user group. Email ntg@nic.surfnet.nl, or see http://ei0.ei.ele.tue.nl/ntg/. The Prime Time TeXcetera CD-ROM is a copy of CTAN; email ptf@ctcl.com or see http://www.ptf.com/ptf/. Walnut Creek has a TeX CD. Email info@cdrom.com or see http://www.cdrom.com:/titles/tex.html. Other organizations may provide TeX on a CD/ROM, but I do not know the details to include them here. (Please inform me if you do.) Precompiled Unix TeX executables: -------------------------- I recommend the teTeX distribution for precompiled binaries, or if you want to retrieve a ready-made system instead of building your own. It's available from CTAN hosts in systems/unix/linux/tetex, but it is not Linux-specific. If you get these binaries, you do not need to get web.tar.gz, web2c.tar.gz, or the other source distributions. If you do not have GNU's gunzip utility, you will need to retrieve and install gzip. ftp> cd /tex-archive/tools/info-zip ftp> get gzip-1.2.4.tar gzip does a better job of compression than standard Unix compress, and it is (as far as is known) patent-free. It is illegal to use Unix compress in the USA, because it infringes a software patent. Write to the League for Programming Freedom for information about fighting the new software monopolies. Acknowledgements: ---------------- The three main sites listed above are part of the Comprehensive TeX Archive Network (CTAN) -- the result of cooperative work among members of TUG, DANTE [German-speaking TeX Users Group], and UKTUG [U.K. TeX Users Group], under the leadership of George Greenwade, Chair for TUG's Technical Working Group on TeX Archive Guidelines . Special thanks to George Greenwade for establishing the CTAN site at Sam Houston State University (US); to Rainer Schoepf, Barbara Burr, and members of DANTE for the CTAN site in Heidelberg (Germany); and to Sebastian Rahtz for the CTAN site in Cambridge (UK). unixtex.ftp was conceived and created by a wonderful person (not the current maintainer!) who wishes to remain electronically anonymous.