This directory contains a program that use the kpathsea library for configuration and path searching, and the library itself. If you are looking for a high-level overview of installing a TeX system from scratch, try ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/unixtex.ftp, mirrored on CTAN sites as /tex-archive/help/unixtex.ftp. For a list of CTAN sites, finger ctan_us@ftp.shsu.edu (a list current as of the time of distribution is in the file FTP). README in each program's subdirectory has an overview of that program. NEWS in each subdirectory contains noteworthy changes by release. INSTALL in each subdirectory has detailed instructions. kpathsea/INSTALL has information common to all the packages. kpathsea/CONFIGURE has information on running the configure script. If you just want to go for it (see kpathsea/INSTALL for explanations and variations): configure make make install make distclean (In the top-level directory, i.e., the one with this README.) Do not merge different distributions that use kpathsea unless you are savvy enough to deal with the consequences. web2c, in particular, uses a much older version than the drivers (for a patch, see ftp.cs.umb.edu:pub/tex/kpathsea-2.*.help). The default installation prefix is the parent of the directory containing the program `tex', or /usr/local. To change it or any other paths, see kpathsea/INSTALL. The above installs the programs, plus the configuration file texmf.cnf and all the documentation. To install the libkpathsea.a library itself and its header files, do (cd kpathsea; make install) before the make distclean. (configure does not look for an installed library or header files, since it's virtually always incompatible from one version to the next.) Please report bugs or suggestions in either the programs or the documentation, no matter how small, to tex-k@cs.umb.edu. Please read the `Bugs' section of the kpathsea manual (a copy is in kpathsea/INSTALL) before submitting bug reports, to avoid wasting everyone's time. Email tex-k-request@cs.umb.edu with a line containing subscribe you@preferred.email.address in the body of the message to join this mailing list. If you know enough about TeX to be reading this, then you (or perhaps your institution) should consider joining the TeX Users Group. (If you're already a member, great!) TUG produces the TUGboat periodical, sponsors an annual meeting and publishes the proceedings, and arranges TeX courses for all levels of users. Given funding (which your joining would help) TUG will sponsor more projects that will benefit the TeX community, such as a successor to TeX $\pi$. Anyway, here is the address: TeX Users Group P.O. Box 869 Santa Barbara, CA 93102 USA phone: (805) 899-4673 email: tug@tug.org This is free software. See the files COPYING* for copying permissions. kb@cs.umb.edu Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- write lpf@uunet.uu.net. (We begin again. We try. We begin again ... down by ... the muddy river. --Laurie Anderson.)
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