Running TeX and LaTeX at UMIST

Running

TeX, LaTeX, AMSTeX and PDFTeX are not installed on the NT clusters, but are available on Galaxy and Cosmos.

To use TeX/LaTeX on Cosmos/Galaxy you must ensure that your PATH is set appropriately. The easiest way to do this is to use the command

setup_latex

N.B. This is an alias; it is set when you login to Cosmos/Galaxy.

If you don't know what a command-line shell is, skip past this paragraph. This alias is set in /usr/local/etc/profile which is called from /etc/profile and is executed when you login --- unless you have asked for your default shell to be changed from the Korn Shell. If you have changed shell since logging in you may not be able to use this alias. Instead you can add TeX's bin directory to your path manually. On Cosmos, with Bourne Shell, Korn Shell or BASH...

export PATH=/software/teTeX_v1.0/bin:$PATH

or with C-Shell or TC-Shell...

setenv PATH /software/teTeX_v1.0/bin:$PATH

On Galaxy, with Bourne Shell, Korn Shell or BASH...

export PATH=/software1/teTeX/bin:$PATH

or with C-Shell or TC-Shell...

setenv PATH /software1/teTeX/bin:$PATH

More Documentation

The distribution used is teTeX. The online documentation for teTeX is available locally.

     /software1/teTeX/bin