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How To Install NTeX Release 1.2
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0. Read the whole file INSTALL (the one you are looking at right now) before
   you start to install anything!

   If you have an installed the version 1.1 of NTeX you should remove this
   installation with removepkg before you install 1.2 since the directory
   structure changed. If you do not have other packages starting with nt?-*
   you can do this with (assuming the package files are store in
   /usr/adm/packages)

     cd /var/adm/packages
    removepkg nt?-*

   Please also note that the dvi drivers xdvik, xdvipsk and dviljk use the
   kpathsea library 2.1, but TeX and MetaFont (web2c) still use version 1.7.
   So if you change the paths for kpathsea 2.1 by editing the file texmf.cnf,
   TeX and MetaFont will not use these paths. As soon as there is a version
   of web2c that supports kpathsea 2.1 I will install it. Right now the
   definitions in texmf.cnf and the one for web2c are equal. So there should
   be no problems with the default values. If you have to change them use
   the environment variables to do so.

1. Download the directories ntex01 to ntex13. The contents of each directory
   should be copied on a 3.5" HD disk (1.44MB) with a MS-DOS file system.

   If you are using another format and the files in one directory do not fit
   onto one disk you can copy them on different ones. Just make sure that each
   disk contains a empty file ntexN where N is a number from 01, 02, 03, ...
   Then edit the file disknam on the disk ntex01. This file should contain
   the names of the empty files. If you are not using a msdos filesystem
   you also have to change the file diskfs on ntex01. It contains the name of
   the filesystem used for the mount command.

2. To install NTeX mount the disk ntex01 with a command like

     mkdir /tmp/ntex01
     mount -r -t msdos /dev/fd0 /tmp/ntex01

   where msdos is the filesystem /dev/fd0 is the disk drive (you may
   change it to /dev/fd1) and /tmp/ntex01 is the directory under which the
   disk is installed. Then copy the install.sh script on your harddisc. For
   example

    cp /tmp/ntex01/install.sh /tmp/install.sh

3. Now call the installation script install.sh with the directory name you
   used for mounting ntex01. In the example above this would be

     cd /tmp
     install.sh /tmp/ntex01

  (Don't stay in the /tmp/ntex01 directory during installation since it
  ntex01 will be unmounted by install.sh.)
  This script will copy some basic information for installing ntex in
  /tmp/install.ntex and calls the script installntex contained in
  install.tgz on ntex01. installntex does the real installation and could
  also be used to install the packages from the current directory. If you want
  to install the packages from the current directory create a directory
  on your hardisk, unzip and untar the package install.tgz in this directory.
  Copy the packages you want to install in the same directory and call the
  installntex script form there.

4. installntex asks you if you want to install from floppy or from the current
   directory. If you did not copy all the files from ntex01 to ntex13 in one
   directory on your harddisk, choose floppy (as supposed in step 1 and 2). In
   this case you also have to choose the device file of the floppy drive
   (/dev/fd0 for DOS drive A and /dev/fd1 for DOS drive B). Now you can choose
   the installation script which is used for installing the package. If you
   are using slackware you probably want to use the slackware installation
   script. I have included this in the installation package. If you do not
   want to use the slackware installation script, the installation will be
   done with a simple script provided by installntex. This simple script
   creates for each installed package a .files file in the installation
   directory which contains a list of the installed files. After this short
   configuration you get a list of the packages  and have to choose which you
   want to install. If you have limited disk  space you should choose the
   packages wisely and just install what you really need. All the packages
   have a status, which is either necessary, recommended or optional. You have
   to install the packages with the status necessary in order to run TeX. The
   recommended packages should be installed unless you are sure that you do
   never need them. You should just install the optional packages if you
   really want to use them. After you have chosen the packages, they will be
   installed and you are asked to insert disk ntex01 to ntex13. Of course if
   you are installing from current directory, you do not have to do this.

   After all the packages are installed you go through a basic configuration
   for NTeX. Here you can configure dvips, xdvi, LaTeX2e and MetaFont for your
   local printer and the hyphenation tables you want to use. If you do not
   know what you have to change, keep the default settings. You can change
   them later. To configure xdvi you have to change the file
   /usr/lib/texmf/X/XDvi. This is an app-defaults file and has to be linked
   to your app-defaults directory for X11/openwin (for openwin this is most
   likely /usr/openwin/lib/app-defaults and for X11 it is most likely
   /usr/X11/lib/X11/app-defaults). installntex can do this job for you if
   you know the name of your app-defaults directory or you can do it later
   with

     ln -s /usr/lib/texmf/X/XDvi <app-defaults-directory>/XDvi

   A general note: Don't change anything in the configuration files and the
   fonts unless you know exactly what you are doing. The default configuration
   should work for a lot of systems and should always do it for a beginner.
   You can run the configuration script for the packages you have installed
   from /usr/lib/texmf/tools. If the package has an configuration script you
   find a file <packagename>.cfg in this directory which you can run at
   every time you want to change the configuration.
   The only thing that you really might have to change is the localfont mode
   in /usr/lib/texmf/mf/base/modes.mf. This is easiest done with the
   installntex script. You do not necessarily have to create the fonts after
   you have done this. The script MakeTeXPK will do this for you.

5. Note that the distribution does not contain any pk font files. They can
   be created with a shell script in /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/create. The shell
   script is called createallfonts. Before you build the fonts you have to
   set the localfont mode to your printer in the file
   /usr/lib/texmf/mf/base/modes.mf. You can do this either with the
   installntex script after you have installed MetaFont or later by hand. If
   you do not know how this works, do it with installntex when you are asked
   so. After you changed the localfont mode in modes.mf you also have to
   recreate the bases for MetaFont. installntex does this automatically. In
   order to build the pk font files type

    cd /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/create
    createallfonts

   This can take quite some time and you should run it over night. You can
   also run it as background process with

    cd /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/create
    createallfonts &>/dev/null &

   You can ignore the "font not installed" messages during creation.
   There might also be created some *.ferr files in
   /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/create. They document some errors in some of
   the fonts which are not removed... Don't care about them unless
   you have some problems with a font (send a report to me in this
   case).

   If you want to build just a part of the fonts you have installed you
   can call one of the create.sh scripts in the subdirectories of
   /usr/lib/texmf/fonts which just builds the fonts in this directory and
   below. Please note that the create.sh scripts are the old version of
   creating the fonts. They will not create all the fonts which are
   created by createallfonts!

   However you do not have to build any pk files. TeX and the printer
   drivers can do this automatically with the shell script MakeTeXPK.
   If you do not have a lot of diskspace or are not experienced with
   TeX this may be the best solution. You might have to wait for the
   creation of the fonts in the beginning, but just those fonts are
   creasted which you really need. If you let MakeTeXPK create the pk
   fonts they will be installed in the directory /usr/lib/texmf/fonts/tmp/pk.

   After you have created the fonts you should call

   /usr/lib/texmf/tools/create_ls-R

   in order to update the kpathsea ls-R databse.

   Note that also xdvi uses the localfont mode. If your localfont mode does
   not go along with xdvi, you should change the default mode of xdvi in
   the app-defaults file /usr/lib/texmf/X/XDvi (this could also be done
   with installntex or the ntb-xdvi.cfg script in /usr/lib/texmf/tools).

6. After the installation is complete you can remove the installation directory
   /tmp/install.ntex and the direcotry you used for mounting ntex01. In the
   example above this was /tmp/ntex01. The disk ntex01 is unmounted
   automatically by the script install.sh

All the packages are installed in the directories /usr/bin (binaries),
/usr/lib/texmf (fonts, macros, etc.), /usr/info (info files) and /usr/src/tex
(sources). If you want to use /usr/local instead of /usr, just move the
directory /usr/lib/texmf to /usr/local/lib/texmf and the binaries for ntex
from /usr/bin to /usr/local/bin. To figure out which binaries are installed
in /usr/bin, type
        grep ./usr/bin/ *.idx
in the installation directory and you'll get a list of the binaries. You get
a list of the info files with
        grep ./usr/info/ *.idx
If you have a /usr/local/info directory, you can copy them there. To change
the directories for the sources just move /usr/src/tex to /usr/local/src/tex.
After you have copied all the files to /usr/local/... , you have to change the
paths for TeX and MetaFont. See the manual pages of TeX and MetaFont for the
environment variables which have to be changed. Note that you do not need
these environment variables if you keep TeX where it is installed since these
paths are used as default paths.

Please also read the README file. You can find a list of the contents of the
disks ntex01 to ntex13 in the file DISKS. The files contained in each package
could be found in the .idx files on the installation disk. The .inf files on
the installation disk contain a short description for each package. All these
descriptions could also be found in INFO.

If you have serious problems with the installation, please contact me. I will
try my best to answer your mail.

Comments, suggestions and bug reports to Frank Langbein -
[e-mail] (till November 1994),
[e-mail]