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Simple installation
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  Installing TeX and friends for the first time can be a daunting
experience.  Thus, you may prefer to skip this whole thing and just get
precompiled executables: see *Note unixtex.ftp::.

  This section explains what to do if you wish to take the defaults for
everything, and generally to install in the simplest possible way.  Most
steps here refer to corresponding subsection in the next section which
explains how to override defaults and generally gives more details.

  By default everything will be installed under `/usr/local' and the
following discussion assumes this.  However, if you already have TeX
installed, its location is used to derive the directory under which
everything is to be installed.

  1. Be sure you have enough disk space: approximately 8 megabytes for
     the compressed archives, 15MB for sources, 50MB for compilation,
     40MB for the (initial) installed system (including library files).
     Note: Disk space.

  2. Retrieve these distribution archives:
    <ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/texk.tar.gz>
          These are the sources, which you will be compiling.

    <ftp://ftp.tug.org/tex/texklib.tar.gz>
          This is a basic set of input files.  You should unpack it in
          the directory `/usr/local/share'; doing so will create a
          `texmf' subdirectory there.

     These archives are mirrored on the CTAN hosts, in the
     `systems/web2c' directory.

     Note: Kpathsea application distributions.

  3. When using the default search paths, there is no need to edit any
     distribution files. Note: Changing search paths.

  4. At the top level of the distribution, run `sh configure'.  (If you
     have the GNU Bash shell installed, run `bash configure'.)  Note:
     Running configure.

  5. `make'. Note: Running make.  If you are using a BSD 4.4 system
     such as FreeBSD or NetBSD, you may have to use GNU make (often
     installed in `/usr/local/bin'), not the BSD make.

  6. `make install'. Note: Installing files.

  7. `make distclean'. Note: Cleaning up.

  8. Set up a cron job to rebuild the filename database that makes
     searching faster.  This line will rebuild it every midnight:
          0 0 * * * cd /usr/local/share/texmf && /BINDIR/mktexlsr
     Note: Filename database generation, and Note: Filename
     database.

  9. If you're installing Dvips, you also need to set up configuration
     files for your printers and make any additional PostScript fonts
     available.  Note: Installation.  If you have
     any color printers, see *Note Color device configuration:
     (dvips)Color device configuration.

 10. The first time you run a DVI driver, a bunch of PK fonts will be
     built by Metafont via `mktexpk' (and added to the filename
     database).  This will take some time.  Don't be alarmed; they will
     created only this first time (unless something is wrong with your
     path definitions).

     By default, `mktexpk' will create these fonts in a hierarchy under
     `/var/tmp/texfonts'; it simply assumes that `/var/tmp' exists and
     is globally writable.  If you need a different arrangement, see
     Note: mktex configuration.

     Note: mktex scripts.

 11. For some simple tests, try `tex story \\bye' and `latex sample2e'.
     Then run `xdvi story' or `dvips sample2e' on the resulting DVI
     files to preview/print the documents.  Note: Installation
     testing.