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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
INSTALLING latexmk
==================
- (Version 4.05, 11 April 2008)
+ (Version 4.20, 12 November 2010)
John Collins
Physics Department
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
U.S.A.
http://www.phys.psu.edu/~collins/
- http://www.phys.psu.edu/~collins/software/latexmk/
+ http://www.phys.psu.edu/~collins/latexmk/
username collins at node phys.psu.edu
(E-mail address obfuscated to avoid being harvested by worms and spammers)
@@ -36,18 +36,52 @@ systems with suitable customization.
On all systems, the prequisites are
a. A working installation of Perl. (See http://www.cpan.org/ if you
- don't have one.)
+ don't have one. Modern UNIX-like systems, particularly linux and
+ OS-X, normally have perl installed by default.)
b. A working installation of TeX and LaTeX. (See http://www.ctan.org/ if
you don't have one.)
+!!!! IMPORTANT NOTE: !!!!
+===========================
+
+If you have installed a modern distribution of TeX and friends, you
+may find that latexmk is installed on your computer. If not, it can
+be installed by using your distribution's package manager.
+
+This is definitely the case for TeXLive 2009 or later, which is also
+an essential component of MacTeX. I have also read that another major
+distribution MiKTeX also includes latexmk, but I have not checked this
+for myself.
+
+You can test whether latexmk is already installed by trying the
+command "latexmk -v" from the command line. If this succeeds, then
+latexmk is already installed. Otherwise, if you are using TeXLive or
+MacTeX, then you can simply use its package manager to get latexmk
+installed, the same as for any other missing package.
+
+If you are on MS-Windows and you are using TeXLive (2009, or later),
+this distribution also includes a distribution of Perl sufficient to
+run latexmk.pl, so you don't need to install Perl separately. It also
+includes an executable file latexmk.exe that runs latexmk, so you
+don't have to use the latexmk.bat that is part of the latexmk
+distribution.
+
+
+
Installing on UNIX/LINUX
========================
(Power users can modify these as appropriate.)
+NOTE: If you are using TeXLive 2009 or later, you can install latexmk
+simply by using the TeXLive package manager. In fact, depending on
+how much of TeXLive you have already installed, latexmk may already
+have been installed. In that case you don't normally need to bother
+with the manual installation explained below.
+
1. Make sure you have working installations of Perl and TeX/LaTeX.
2. Put the file latexmk.pl in a directory for executable files. For
@@ -142,6 +176,12 @@ Installing on MS-Windows
(Power users can modify these as appropriate.)
+NOTE: If you are using TeXLive 2009 or later, you can install latexmk
+simply by using the TeXLive package manager. In fact, depending on
+how much of TeXLive you have already installed, latexmk may already
+have been installed. In that case you don't normally need to bother
+with the manual installation explained below.
+
1. Make sure you have working installations of Perl and TeX/LaTeX,
complete with viewers for dvi and/or postscript files.
@@ -308,7 +348,7 @@ Version 2 was modified by Evan McLean.
The current version is by John Collins (username collins at node
phys.psu.edu) -- other contact details at the top. It is copyright
-1998-2009 by John Collins, and the previous authors; see the copyright
+1998-2010 by John Collins, and the previous authors; see the copyright
notice in the latexmk.pl file, which gives permission to use, copy,
modify, and distribute this software and its documentation under the
terms of the GNU Public License.