Installation of packages required by GNU TeXmacs


In order to run GNU TeXmacs, you should have installed a TeX distribution on your system, as well as the Guile/Scheme extension language. Below, we shortly describe how to do this. For descriptions of TeX and Guile and useful links, click here.


1. Installation of a TeX system

The installation of a functional TeX distribution on your system can be a complicated job. We recommend you to install the teTeX, which has been most extensively tested in combination with TeXmacs.

If you use redhat linux or another linux distribution (like mandrake) which supports the rpm command, then teTeX is most easily installed using this facility. You should first download the teTeX distribution which corresponds to your platform. An rpm package [package]-[version].rpm is installed by root using 


    rpm -i [package]-[version].rpm
An rpm package may depend on other rpm packages. When installing a package, you will be informed on missing dependencies. In our case you will probably need to install the teTeX fonts too. In order to know whether a particular package [package]-[version].rpm has been installed on your system, you should type 

    rpm -q [package]
In particular, before installing teTeX, you should try 

    rpm -q tetex
in order to know whether the package is already there on your system.

If you do not have the rpm program, then you may download it from ftp://ftp.rpm.org/pub/rpm/dist/rpm-3.0.x and unpack it in the / directory as root. You may also download teTeX from CTAN by following the instructions given there.


2. Installation of guile

The easiest way to install Guile is again by downloading the rpm package which corresponds to your platform and install it in a similar way as above. Otherwise, you may download the source code of the official Guile distribution from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/guile and follow the instructions below.

If you have the permission to log yourself as root, then it is preferable that you log yourself as root and install the package by 


    gunzip -c guile-1.3.4.tar.gz | tar xvf -

    cd guile-1.3.4

    ./configure

    make

    make install
This will install Guile into /usr/local/share/guile. The Guile binaries and libraries will be installed in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/lib respectively. You should set the paths GUILE_LOAD_PATH, PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH accordingly, using 

    export GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/usr/local/share/guile/1.3.4

    export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH

    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
or 

    setenv GUILE_LOAD_PATH /usr/local/share/guile/1.3.4

    setenv PATH /usr/local/bin:$PATH

    setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
as a function of your shell.

If you do not have the possibility to log yourself as root, and if your system administrator is not willing to install Guile in the above way, then you may also install Guile in another directory [dir] as follows. 


    gunzip -c guile-1.3.4.tar.gz | tar xvf -

    cd guile-1.3.4

    ./configure --prefix=[dir]

    make

    make install
In this case, Guile will be installed in the directory [dir]. The Guile binaries resp. libraries can be found in the subdirectories [dir]/bin resp. [dir]/lib. You should set the paths GUILE_LOAD_PATH, PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH accordingly, using 

    export GUILE_LOAD_PATH=[dir]/share/guile/1.3.4

    export PATH=[dir]/bin:$PATH

    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=[dir]/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
or 

    setenv GUILE_LOAD_PATH [dir]/share/guile/1.3.4

    setenv PATH [dir]/bin:$PATH

    setenv LD_LIBRARY_PATH [dir]/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
as a function of your shell.

You may also download Guile from its official home page. You will also find more documentation about Guile there.


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