More detailed installation instructions may be available in the file TUTORIAL.

Support is available by emailing the Easylatex mailing list, easylatex-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.


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WINDOWS	
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You must have Perl installed on your machine (the program was tested only with ActiveState Perl). Unfortunately, you must also install "psfrag", which is included with the easylatex distribution.

Aside from this, no "installation" is necessary (or, yet, available); just unpack the EasyLatex directory the .tar.gz, and run it as "perl easylatex.pl".

EasyLatex has only been tested a little bit on Windows, and there are probably still bugs. Please feel free to ask for help at easylatex-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.


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LINUX
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You must have Perl installed on your machine. Unfortunately, you must also install "psfrag", which is included with the easylatex distribution. 

The quickest way to start using EasyLatex is then to just change to the directory which came in the .tar file, and then run 

./quickInstall.pl  

If there are no problems with that, and everything works, then you don't need to read the rest of this file.

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Before installing easylatex.pl, you must have Perl installed already. You may want to have the Perl module "Getopt::Declare" installed, too. However, if you don't, easylatex.pl will run fine from this directory (see footnote below).

If you use Debian, this package is available in package libgetopt-declare-perl.


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To install EasyLatex, simply copy the subdirectory "easylatex" to either "/usr/lib/easylatex" or "$HOME/.easylatex", where $HOME is your home directory.

Please note that if there is a directory at "$HOME/.easylatex", but this directory does not contain the contents of the "easylatex" subdirectory, then easylatex will get confused and abort.
 
In case you get confused, just download easylatex again and re-copy the easylatex subdirectory all over again.

Support is available at the mailing list easylatex-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.


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footnote: 
 because I have already installed "Getopt::Declare" into this directory as a convenience; however, if you move the file "easylatex.pl", it won't be able to find this directory's Getopt::Declare, so in that case you should do a proper install of Getopt::Declare onto your system. 


NOTE: inserting latex into graphivz graphs doesn't work with graphviz 2.2 (and perhaps others), but it does work on some older versions.