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- > Secondly, in the lists of precompiled software at the ARM Linux web site, no
- > mention is made of TeX / LaTeX. This is a fairly important package for me as
- > it is something I use a great deal on Unix machines at work - it would be
- > very handy to be able to work on the same source material at home (something
- > which can't be done at all easily using the RISC OS implementation of TeX,
- > good though it is in many respects). So, how much of TeX is available for
- > ARM Linux? Does LaTeX 2e work? What about the more exotic packages including
- > those from the AMS? (Presumably, if TeX itself works, getting the rest going
- > on a Linux system shouldn't present too many problems.)
- >
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- Don't know anything about A5000s, but the entire
- Unix teTeX distribution compiles staright out of the box.
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- Runs at about the same speed as a 50MHz Sparc20 too :)
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- Just get the sources, unpack them, do a make world and wait!
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- Took maybe an hour on my SA110 RiscPC, so could be considerably longer on
- an A5000.
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- Also, you'l need about 70MB free disk space to compile it. This goes
- down to ~30MB once you've deleted the sources.
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- You can get teTeX from...
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- ftp.tex.ac.uk in dir /ctan/tex-archive/systems/unix/teTeX/distrib
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- (Read INSTALL.src)
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- Good luck with getting Linux running!
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- Ale.
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