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EDIT: May 11, 2007.
Texlive and kile are avaialble in the repos. So you do not have to follow the howto to install texlive. Though Its good to have the texlive in a CD if you end up in a place where you dont have high speed internet connection. Another advantage of using repos is that you can selectively install stuff you need. for eg. language packs, and several meta packages.
I would suggest installing texlive first and then kile to avoid tetex. I have also seen that when you install texlive from the repos, it will take out tetex if it is already installed.
if you do not want to use kde stuff, and like gnome, try texmaker. howto here
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Hi,
For the latex lovers out there who are looking for a great editor, I highly recommend kile....Usually installing kile from the repos brings tetex with it....
This thread discusses installing LaTeX (TEXLIVE2005) the most comprehensive latex system....
If you want to install kile without tetex...follow this HOWTO
Various steps are:
I. Download and install Texlive2005.
1. Obtain TeXlive here. and
Burn it as iso image into a CD.
2 Install Texlive2005 to disk[this is not for running it live]
Mount the texlive2005 CD and navigate to that directory using a terminal.
3. now install process.
Code:
sudo sh install-tl.sh
4. You will be prompted with various options. I didnt change any of the suggested dir locations etc. just do this:
and enter.
5. Now this is very important. set the PATH. [this information is provided in The TeX Live Guide pp.11]. I did this before I could run texconfig. Its good if we could set the PATH first, I think.
Code:
PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2005/bin/i386-linux:$PATH; export PATH
you can do this at the terminal or put it at the end in /etc/bash.bashrc
This way, the path will be set when you login as this file is run at login.
Code:
sudo gedit /etc/bash.bashrc
copy-paste the above PATH at the end of the file. save and close.
check the path and make sure that the path is there...
discussions on setting env variables can be found here.
6. Now run
if it returns 'command not found' the the Path is not set properly. i would suggest re-login after setting the path. Else, what you could do is to run the above path command at the terminal to activate it for the time being.
7. run
This updates various file name databases. [pp. 13 of tex live guide]
8. make sure it works...at the terminal type,
you should see this:
Code:
TeX 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.5)
kpathsea version 3.5.5
Copyright 2005 D.E. Knuth.
Kpathsea is copyright 2005 Karl Berry and Olaf Weber.
There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the TeX copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the TeX source.
Primary author of TeX: D.E. Knuth.
Kpathsea written by Karl Berry, Olaf Weber, and others.
Good. Its working ! Make sure all the tex commands are working by trying at the terminal (any directory) one by one...
latex, dvips, bibtex, gv, makeindex, xdvi, pdflatex, dvipdfm, ps2pdf, xpdf or acroread (install separately and make it executable), and mpost.
I have seen some permission issues preventing the commands running even from the terminal. so you can actually set the permissions using chmod command. Below is a sample (be careful when setting permission: do some research on issues when setting permissions or get help from some guru if in doubt). Couple of good references on this are here (detailed) and here (brief)
Code:
sudo chmod -R 755 /usr/local/texlive/2005/bin/i386-linux
II. Install kile.
1. This section assumes that you haven't changed the TeXLive default dir locations
Code:
sudo apt-get install kile
OR, you could use synaptic to install kile. In either case, Kile brings so many stuff with it (including some necessary libraries). Just say 'yes' and we will ignore its fellow packages 'including' tetex installation. IMO, texlive is much more comprehensive than tetex.
2. Once both applications are installed in place, its time to start the configuration procedure. So open kile from
Code:
Applications > Office > Kile
and go to
Code:
Settings > Configure Kile
and select Build from the menu. This is where we need to put in all the info needed to link kile with texlive. All other options can be set as per your personal preferences.
Observe that
Code:
/usr/local/texlive/2005/bin/i386-linux/
is the locations where all the texlive executables we need are located. [this is the case when you have accepted the default directory locations the texlive installer specified]
3. You would see several listings under 'select a tool' menu. We will go step by step. A screen shot of what I have is given as plate1.
(i) select Latex and select 'modern' (in 'select a configuration')
Now, go to 'Advanced' tab and chose 'Run outside of Kile' in the 'Type' menu.
Come back to 'General' and copy the above directory in the command field to include /latex, which will then look like this.
Code:
/usr/local/texlive/2005/bin/i386-linux/latex
Note: Generally there are 3 major processes when using LaTeX:
a) compiling
Here we use applications such as latex, pdflatex, pdftex etc to compile a simple text file with .tex extension to dvi or pdf.
So, when configuring any compiler, the source extension filed can be left out since it will look in the directory to get the .tex file.
b) conversion
this is where we produce more useful file types such as .pdf, .ps etc.
For this we use covertion tools. such as dvips, ps2pdf, latex2html etc...
Here you need to specify the source and target extensions. its easy.
For e.g., when configuring DVItoPS tool, use
Code:
/usr/local/texlive/2005/bin/i386-linux/dvips
options
Code:
-o '%S.ps' '%S.dvi'
Source: dvi
Target : ps
In general, after you do the set up as mentioned above for 'Advanced' tab. Make sure that you have the proper source and target file extensions given. Since we are not using tetex, might need to input these here after selecting "run ouside of kile".
Note: see 'Thoughts' below.
c) view files..
now, i think, this part is self explanatory. Same logic as before.
In some cases, as in my case, I use acroread to view pdf files. so just use the appropriate command. for e.g., you might use xpdf or acroread and these executables may not be in the locations we used for latex or pdflatex.
Thoughts: if you have installed acroread separately then u need to just use 'acroread' in the command line for ViewsPDF (if acroread works from a normal terminal). select 'run outside of kile' here too. Sometimes it could happen that you will be using xpdf and if that is included in the tetex installation then do not bother to change anything. Its just to view a pdf!!!
Samething with conversion tools.
All we are interested in is to use texlive for compiling.
4. As you might have observed there are only a few steps involved in linking kile to texlive. they are:
to,
-tell kile to run commands outside of kile
for that,
-give the paths to the executables appropriately.
And if you see no place to type in the command ['command' field under 'General'] then the "run outside of kile" is not set. again, to do this, go to 'Advanced' tab- do stuff, come back to 'General' and you will see the command field.
5. finally i would suggest restart kile and then do
Code:
Settings > system check...
Make sure that there are no serious errors. Things should come printed in green. You can safely ignore some of the warnings (orange) as we might not be using all of the options. See what things went wrong and take any action as necessary.
Do perform a check by running some sample tex files (simple to more complicated ones) using various compiling options such as latex, pdflatex etc...
an excellent source for latex source files can be found here
and select any paper and then chose 'other' to get the zipped source.
6. To integrate aspell into kile. [by default kile uses ispell for spell check etc.]
Code:
Settings > Configure Kile..> Spelling > Client > Aspell.
If you dont have aspell installed then
Code:
sudo apt-get install aspell
Or just use the convenient terminal window provided by kile.
Code:
aspell check filename.tex
and follow instructions...
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Some Tips: (1) Everytime its good to clean the folder before checking new compiler. this will make sure that the commands are indeed working and generating appropriate files and not using those from the previous run.
(2)if you are getting an error on log file then it might be that the compiler is not working properly. go back to settings and see if you have given all the info correctly.
(3)look at the command window output and check that all the commands you use are from the texlive installation and not tetex.
HOWTO on using TeXmaker with TeXLive can be found here..
I hope this helps... Please feel free to put your comments/suggestions/corrections.
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