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| 58 | Installing the required tools under Cygwin under Cygwin can be a |
| 59 | little tedious. Most of the required packages can be installed |
| 60 | using Cygwin's graphical installer, while netpbm and <span class="LaTeX">LaTeX</span>2HTML |
| 61 | must be installed from source. |
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| 64 | Start with a reasonably modern version of Cygwin. If you haven't |
| 65 | upgraded for a few years, now would be a good time. |
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| 68 | Using the Cygwin installer, make sure your Cygwin installation |
| 69 | includes Perl, Python, and the <span class="TeX">TeX</span> packages. Perl and Python |
| 70 | are located under the <span class="guilabel">Interpreters</span> heading. The |
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| 72 | heading, and are named <code>tetex-*</code>. To ensure that all |
| 73 | required packages are available, install every <code>tetex</code> |
| 74 | package, except <code>tetex-x11</code>. (There may be a more minimal |
| 75 | set, but I've not spent time trying to minimize the installation.) |
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| 78 | The netpbm package is used by <span class="LaTeX">LaTeX</span>2HTML, and <em>must</em> be |
| 79 | installed before <span class="LaTeX">LaTeX</span>2HTML can be successfully installed, even |
| 80 | though its features will not be used for most Python |
| 81 | documentation. References to download locations are located in |
| 82 | the <a class="ulink" href="http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/README" |
| 83 | >netpbm README</a>. |
| 84 | Install from the latest stable source distribution according to |
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| 86 | sometimes available, but these may not work correctly with |
| 87 | <span class="LaTeX">LaTeX</span>2HTML.) |
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| 90 | <span class="LaTeX">LaTeX</span>2HTML can be installed from the source archive, but only |
| 91 | after munging one of the files in the distribution. Download the |
| 92 | source archive from the <span class="LaTeX">LaTeX</span>2HTML website |
| 93 | <a class="url" href="http://www.latex2html.org/">http://www.latex2html.org/</a> (or one of the many alternate |
| 94 | sites) and unpack it to a build directory. In the top level of |
| 95 | this build directory there will be a file named <span class="file">L2hos.pm</span>. |
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| 103 | % ./configure && make install |
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