Note:

The linux4afrika team decides which packages will be installed for you server configuration.

Some steps have been already done by the linux4afrika team. Nevertheless we refer to the whole install and configuration process to enable you to understand how to proceed in similar cases.

This is just an example:

To be sure that you have all necessary packages locally install the metapackage texlive-full (containes texlive 2007). The metapackage installs all languages, fonts and extras. Please consider that the whole download is about than 680 MB vast and needs about 1400 MB free space.

Install:

aptitude install texlive-full latex2html gnuhtml2latex latex-beamer kile khelpcenter perl-tk gv dot2tex graphviz xfig hyphen_show

For more information about the package just type:

apt-cache show texlive-full

Note:

Kile works with ispell to help with spell check. Nevertheless aspell is already installed on your system. Use this workaround:

ln -s /usr/bin/aspell /usr/local/bin/ispell

Nice to know:

texdoctk ist a GUI for easier access of TeX package and program documentations with search function. For understanding what the tex directory structure is just start texdoctk from commandline and type tds in the search mask. If you look for the tetex manual just start texdoctk and click on the fundamentals button. For more information regrading tex live just click on the button "The TeX Live guide"

The command texconfig configures teTeX

hyphen_show

Trying to spot all erroneous hyphenations by looking at the complete manuscript is a royal pain, and mostly just does not work (in my experience) when things reach thesis length. I was therefore insanely pleased to discover hyphen_show which simply takes your .dvi file as input and spits out a list of all the hyphenated words it finds. It is now a breeze to check for faulty ones and add these to a \hyphenation exception list.

hyphen_show requires a dvi file. Just convert your tex file to dvi