Re: [AUCTeX] Installation: Latex not found

[Ralf Angeli]

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* Armando Martins (2008-07-24) writes:

> Em Wed, 23 Jul 2008 19:46:01 +0100, Ralf Angeli <address@hidden>  
> escreveu:
>
>> * Armando Martins (2008-07-23) writes:
>>
>>> The point is that when I install Auxtec configure says it hasn't found
>>> Latex and I should Install it first otherwise preview latex won't work.
>>
>> Make sure `latex' can be called from the shell used for configuration.
>> This is usually the case when the directory containing the executable is
>> in `PATH'.
>
> I installed Tex again but this time to disk (which is a problem because  
> the disk is running out of space. The point is that I don't know how to  
> install TeXLive running off CD and keep Auctex: last time I did it, I  
> managed to work with latex and xetex etc but AucTex wasn't there any more  
> (which is a pity because I have tried other editing environments from kile  
> to texmaker, Techniccenter, Led etc and, even for a clumsy person with  
> Unix as me, none is so powerfull as Emacs).

If you want to run TeX Live from the CD and use AUCTeX you have two
options:

1) Tell your package management system that you have software with the
   capabilities of TeX Live installed on your system in order to satisfy
   the dependencies defined for the AUCTeX package.  Something like this
   is possible with APT, not sure about RPM.  But if it is, this should
   allow you to install the AUCTeX RPM package.

2) Download the AUCTeX sources and install manually without using the
   package system, as you tried before.

In any case you will need to adapt `PATH' for the TeX Live binaries to
be found, as suggested before.

> Can ask you something completely different? How can I configure Emacs to  
> save may files by default wiht enconding utf-8?

See (info "(emacs)International") <-- Type `C-x C-e' here.
Especially the sections about language environments and coding systems.

Hint: If you have a UTF8 locale, the default coding system should be
UTF8.  And if you have a recent version of Emacs, it should be able to
derive the coding system from the argument you supplied to the inputenc
package.

-- 
Ralf