Can we have LaTeX installed on our server?

[F4E]

Can LaTeX be installed on Waterseven Server? It is now the most popular standard for scientific and technical documents. May be Waterseven will be the first (may be also the only) free webhost providing LaTeX. As much I know LaTeX uses very little system resource, so it can be safe to install.

[Efil]

I've been thinking of installing it long time ago. It's just that I don't have time. Please do install it if you know how to do. If not then perhaps I'll go on installing it but the one with Japanese fonts recognition - platex.

[F4E]

I am not sure about installing it, so it will be better you install it whenever you will have time.
BTW: Does platex support everything which Latex does?

[Efil]

I don't know exactly, but I'll get back to this maybe in the next few weeks.

[F4E]

Great.. i'll wait.. thanks.

[halex78]

Hey, I installed texlive on a webserver (debian), and i checked : cjk packages are included. It means that all japanese symbols are included.

So the package "texlive-full" include all languages, characters, special symbols... You don't have to install any other packages : just this one (very big one however !).

Hope this help.

LINKS:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/texlive-full
http://packages.debian.org/sid/latex-cjk-all

[Efil]

Thank you, Alex, for the info. I'll start working this Saturday, we have 5 days straight vacation here in Japan - called, Golden Week. So I'll have plenty of time to deal with bulk installations. 

[Efil]

Hey, I installed texlive on a webserver (debian), and i checked : cjk packages are included. It means that all japanese symbols are included.

So the package "texlive-full" include all languages, characters, special symbols... You don't have to install any other packages : just this one (very big one however !).

Hope this help.

LINKS:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/texlive-full
http://packages.debian.org/sid/latex-cjk-all

Our server is centOS, I managed to install the original textlive image. But I'm still figuring out how to install the ptexlive which is the japanization of it.

[Efil]

I'll postpone applying the Japanese patch for texlive. There are two versions of latex installed in our system now. One is Tetex which comes with CentOS and the other is TeXlive. The default is tetex, so if you want to use texlive you should add it to the path:

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PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2009/bin/i386-linux:$PATH

[halex78]

Ok, tetex seems to work better for me, even if i can't use it (texlive gives an internal error)

I'm trying to install the plugin latex for foswiki since latex is available on the server... Still not working... Can't have an access to the extender.pl file to install this latex extension... So is there any activated safe mod, or something else which would be the cause of the problem ?

The available logs don't give all the informations...

[Efil]

Can you give us a little more information, like what was the command that you tried to execute and what was the exact error output, etc.?