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\title{Installing \LaTeX}
\author{Jason Gross}
\date{HSSP 2010}
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\section*{\LaTeX{} for the impatient}
This section is taken from \url{http://www.latex-project.org/ftp.html}.
\subsection*{Linux}
Your system distribution or vendor has probably provided a \TeX{} system including \LaTeX. Check your usual software source for a \TeX{} package; otherwise install \href{http://www.tug.org/texlive}{\TeX{} Live} directly.
\subsection*{Mac OS X}
The \href{http://www.tug.org/mactex/}{Mac\TeX} distribution contains everything you need, including a complete \TeX{} system with \LaTeX{} itself and editors to write your documents.
\subsection*{Windows}
Check out the \href{http://www.tug.org/protext/}{pro\TeX t} system; this allows you to install a full TeX system, including LaTeX, while reading about the basics of the installation.


\section{Installing \LaTeX{} on Windows}
\subsection{pro\TeX t}
According to their website, ``pro\TeX t aims to be an easy-to-install \TeX{} distribution for Windows, based on \MiKTeX. After downloading, it guides the installation via a short pdf document (available in English, French, German, and Italian), which provides clickable links to install the various components, along with explanations.''  You can download pro\TeX t from \url{http://www.tug.org/protext/}.  If you want a direct download link, \url{http://ftp.math.purdue.edu/mirrors/ctan.org/systems/windows/protext/protext.exe} will let you download pro\TeX t.

\subsection{\MiKTeX{} and \TeX nicCenter}
You can download \MiKTeX{} from \url{http://miktex.org/}, or from the ``Download'' button next to ``Basic MiKTeX 2.8'' Installer at \url{http://miktex.org/2.8/setup}.  You can download \TeX nicCenter from \url{http://www.texniccenter.org/}, or from \url{http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/texniccenter/TeXnicCenter/1.0\%20Stable\%20RC1/TXCSetup\_1StableRC1.exe?use\_mirror=softlayer} if you want a direct link.

\subsection{Installing Linux and Kile}
If you want to use the program we used in class, you can install ubuntu with Wubi, at \url{http://wubi-installer.org/}.  And then refer to the unix section.  If you don't have the \texttt{apt-get} command, you can install Debathena, from \url{http://debathena.mit.edu/}, or \url{http://debathena.mit.edu/install} (you should probably choose debathena-standard).

\section{Installing \LaTeX{} on Macintosh}
\subsection{\TeX Shop and \TeX{} Live via Mac\TeX}
You can install both \TeX{} Live and \TeX Shop by downloading Mac\TeX, from \url{http://www.tug.org/mactex}, or \url{http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/mac/mactex/MacTeX.mpkg.zip} if you want a direct link.  If you want to download them separately, you can download \TeX Shop from \url{http://www.uoregon.edu/\~koch/texshop/}, or \url{http://www.uoregon.edu/\~koch/texshop/texshop.zip} if you want a direct link.  

\section{\LaTeX{} on Unix}
\subsection{\TeX{} Live and Kile}
I'm not that familiar with unix systems, so if you use one, hopefully, you know more than I do.  If you have the right packages/utilities installed, you can install Kile with the command line \texttt{sudo apt-get install kile}.  If you don't have okular, a pdf viewer, you might want to \texttt{sudo apt-get install okular} as well.  Alternatively, the website for \TeX{} Live is \url{http://www.tug.org/texlive}, and the website for Kile is \url{http://kile.sourceforge.net/}.
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