KaTeker Source Code

KaTeker is written in Perl and Perl/Tk and can run from source code.

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Installation

Instant running KaTeker from source code

Software required

Perl modules corrected

Running from source code

Create Executable

Download

Download the source code from the Download page. The KaTeker source comes as a gzipped tarball.

Installation

Install the source code simply by

   cd any_directory
   tar xzf your_path_to/KaTeker_Source_xxx.tgz

This will create the directory KaTeker_Source_RELEASE_xxx.

Read KaTeker_Source_RELEASE_xxx/README and KaTeker_Source_RELEASE_xxx/index.html.

KaTeker needs Perl and some Perl packages to be installed. Please read Software required and install the packages from CPAN and some other sources. It will guide you to install the software. It is possible to run KaTeker from source code although the software required is not installed: Instant running KaTeker from source code.

To check whether your system is ready to run KaTeker simply run

   check_packages

It should run even though Perl is not installed.

Read the page Software required please.

Instant running KaTeker from source code

If the binary version of KaTeker and the source code is installed but not the perl modules required by KaTeker, the source code can be executed:

   cd KaTeker_Source_RELEASE_xxxx
   /usr/local/bin/tkateker --run_local

If you only unpacked the binary version of KaTeker

   path_to/KaTeker_RELEASE_xxx/KaTeker/tkateker --run_local

It is important that you actual directory is the root of KaTeker's source – just below KaTeker/ .

When the Software required is not installed a binary package cannot be created, pack_KaTeker will not run.

Patches adaption

Patches can be inserted without any change on the binaries of KaTeker. Simply copy the module changed into the directory /usr/local/KaTker/KaTeker . That is if the module KaTeker::Media changed copy it to /usr/local/KaTeker/KaTker/Media.pm . Please note that the directory is /usr/local/KaTeker/KaTker not /usr/local/KaTeker .