Comments on: Installing LaTeX on Web Hosts

By: Derrick Coetzee

Derrick Coetzee — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:41:57 +0000

A much simpler way to do this is to use the TeX Live network installer, which allows you to configure a path in your home directory, supports both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms, and doesn’t require compiling from sources. Careful though, the complete install takes a lot of space, about 1.2GB - you can select a different install package (like “medium”) if you don’t have that much space. See:

http://www.tug.org/texlive/

By: Twisting Mind » First of all, LaTeX

Twisting Mind » First of all, LaTeX — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:14:12 +0000

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By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:58:31 +0000

@burad

I think there will be no problems. I also succeed installing texlive on HM. I will write about this soon when I have free time.

Thanks for your contribution anyway.

By: burad

burad — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:50:48 +0000

Also will compiling on my local machine and uploading binaries on hostmonster. I doubt it wont work as both machine are having seperate config.

By: burad

burad — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:49:37 +0000

thanks for your help..actually the steps you have mentioned worked for 32 bit machines and ours are 64 bit configs.
So you need to change ./configure step to make it work for 64 bit.

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;

After this i followed the rest of steps as mentioned..and its working

By: Installing latex on hostmonster : Burad’s Blog

Installing latex on hostmonster : Burad’s Blog — Fri, 09 May 2008 06:46:49 +0000

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By: Doug

Doug — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:17:46 +0000

Hi Burad,

I rechecked it. I found that I have the same errors. I think they change some software package. However, you can compile teTeX on your local computer and then upload it to HM. Finally you can run

texconfig

to set environment in HM.

By: Sometimes yahoo is better : Burad’s Blog

Sometimes yahoo is better : Burad’s Blog — Thu, 08 May 2008 22:19:56 +0000

[...] sure that it would fetch me anything useful). So when I search (latex on hostmonster), voila the first result was exactly what I needed. Now I’m eager to try installing latex(/tetex) on my web hosting [...]

By: burad

burad — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:29:58 +0000

while following your method, when i did “make world” its exiting after giving this error.

/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so when searching for -lXt
/usr/bin/ld: skipping incompatible /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.a when searching for -lXt
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lXt
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status

I assume our hostmonster account should generally have same packages installed. help appreciated

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:34:59 +0000

If you want to publish LaTeX equation in WordPress blog without installing any software, please try jsTeXrender:

http://yourequations.com/