Directions for installing latex2html on your SGI

June 14, 2000
Here are the steps to take: 

become root/su 

cd /usr/local 

cp /nfs/dist/latex2html-96.1/latex2html-96.1.tar.gz . 

gunzip latex2html-96.1.tar.gz 

tar -xvf latex2html-96.1.tar 

mv latex2html.config latex2html-96.1/. 

cd latex2html-96.1 

./install-test 

ln -s /usr/local/latex2html-96.1/latex2html /usr/freeware/bin/latex2html
It is important that /usr/freeware/bin is in your path. Notes:

latex2html uses certain executables from the packages "ghostscript" and "netpbm". These distributions have been put in /nfs/dist/freeware. To install them, run swmgr and point it to this directory. These packages were found at http://toolbox.sgi.com/TasteOfDT/public/freeware/index-by-alpha.html Click on Install for these packages, in this order: 

libz
libpng
ghostscript
netpbm-1mar1994

The file README in latex2html-96.1 contains instructions for customizing latex2html, specifically, how to tell it where perl, netpbm, latex, dvips, and gs can be found on your system. You also set the home directory for latex2html. These changes have already been made in the .tar file found in /nfs/dist. Installation worked on aurora and artemis, but if any of these other packages are not installed or are in different directories, then you will need to do some minor work.