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Installing latex on hostmonster

In continuation with my previous post (Some times yahoo is better), I followed the steps on how to install latex/tetex on my web host from here (You can also get the Installation steps from QuickInstall file in source code or access the same file from tug.org).

But the problem is that on web hosts like hostmonster you won’t have root access so you will need to modify some of the things and do a local install in your home directory.

For that you can specify –prefix accordingly while doing ./configure. So you need to do:

./configure --prefix=/home/username/local/teTeX
replace username with your account name

This step ended without any errors But while I was doing make world, the process exited with following error:

/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.a when searching for -lXt
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so when searching for -lX11

I found this thread, where they were discussing similar error and from what I got it was due to machine platform. So I checked my host system information with

uname -a

from there I got x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux which meant its a 64 bit architecture.

So after some tweaking to what I found here(CBLFS: TeTeX) to make it work for local install, you can do following to compile the package:

CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" CXX="g++ ${BUILD64}" USE_ARCH=64 \
./configure --prefix=/home/username/local/teTeX/ \
–enable-shared \
–without-texinfo \
–with-x=no \
–with-system-ncurses \
–with-system-zlib &&
[ -f texk/libtool ] && sed -i “/sys_lib_search_path_spec=/s:/lib:&64:g” texk/libtool;

And then you can do

make world
make all install

You can then add generated executable to your system path by:

PATH=/home/username/local/teTeX/bin/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu:$PATH;
export PATH

You can also configure your installation using:

texconfig

And its DONE :) Find all steps followed by me here
So if you want to install on 32 bit config the method at Microcontroller programming Blog should work fine.
Also read: The Tetex HowTo

You can download required packages using wget on shell account at hostmonster from ctan.org

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May 9, 2008 | Filed Under latex, linux, tutorial 
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9 Responses to “Installing latex on hostmonster”

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  5. Briki on July 19th, 2008 5:26 pm

    You will have better luck without the trailing /
    after teTeX:

    ./configure –prefix=/home/username/local/teTeX/ \

    see:

    http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Mediawiki_and_LaTeX_on_a_host_with_shell_access

  6. burad on July 21st, 2008 7:58 am

    hmmm.. but it worked ;)
    for me trailing / didn’t made any difference

  7. ollie on October 21st, 2008 7:34 pm

    Hi
    Thanks for the info.
    I’m not a computer person, and don’t understand where you enter the commands to do the installation.
    Could you please let me know?

    I’m with Hostmonster, have SSH access and use http://FTP.

  8. burad on October 28th, 2008 4:39 am

    If you have ssh access, then you can ssh to hostmonster server (whose address you can see on left of your hostmonster control panel)using putty or any ssh client. Then you can issue above commands there.

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