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From: jlemon@netcom.com (Jonathan Lemon)
Subject: Re: Build complete LaTeX from source?
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Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 02:12:08 GMT
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In article <437eac$n68@mailnews.kub.nl>, Arnout Boer <infolab1@kub.nl> wrote:
>Has anybody any tips/docs/experience to share
>about how to build a very complete LaTeX distribution from source??
>
>Any help appreciated!
Funny you should ask - I just finished doing that today (on a Sequent box,
not freebsd, though). It's not that difficult, if you which pieces to get.
The following URL should get you started, it outlines which pieces of the
distribution you'll need to get to install LaTeX and TeX:
ftp://ftp.shsu.edu/tex-archive/systems/web2c/unixtex.ftp
--
Jonathan