	Intro	Prepare	Download	Install	Tune	Test	Uninstall	Info

Installation

Follow these steps to get a working emacs/latex environment. Choose any drive and directories for installation you want (but you may have to change the environment variables). I will assume that you install according to:

Emacs       ->    c:\Program Files\emacs
Miktex      ->    c:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5
localtexmf  ->    c:\Local TeX Files (local TEXMF tree)
Ghostscript ->    c:\Program Files\ghostgum\gs
Ghostview   ->    c:\Program Files\ghostgum\ghostview
Auctex      ->    c:\Program Files\emacs\site-lisp\auctex
ispell      ->    c:\usr\local\bin     (This CANNOT be changed)
.emacs      ->    c:\.emacs            (the value of HOME)

If you install Auctex to a different place, you need to make an obvious change in your .emacs file.

Have you done all the preparations?

Emacs 22.1

Unzip the emacs-22.1-bin-i386.zip file to c:\program files\
(2754 files)
Rename the c:\program files\emacs-22.1 directory to c:\program files\emacs
Run the file c:\program files\emacs\bin\addpm.exe

Test: Open the Start Menu/Programs/Gnu Emacs/Emacs. Emacs should start up.

AucTeX 11.14

Unzip auctex-11.14.zip to c:\program files\emacs\site-lisp
(89 files)
Rename c:\program files\emacs\site-lisp\auctex-11.14 to c:\program files\emacs\site-lisp\auctex
Unzip startup1.zip to c:\ (the value of your HOME variable). This creates the startup file c:\.emacs. You must edit this file, if you install auctex to a different place.

Test: (Re)Start Emacs. In emacs, call M-x latex-mode. You should see the "Command" and "LaTeX" menus. Also the "Ref" menu is shown (RefTeX is also activated).

Note for experienced users: A newer version of AucTeX exist (currently 11.82). I have added instructions in the Tuning page, but I strongly suggest that you install version 11.14 first to get a working system before moving on.

Ispell 3.1.20

Unzip ispell-3.2.06-cygwin-1.3-bin.tar.gz to c:\ (the directory cannot be changed)
(22 files)
Put cygwin1.dll into c:\usr\local\bin. If you have cygwin installed, skip this. In addition, you should never have more than one version of cygwin1.dll in your path.

Test: At a Command prompt, type "ispell". Please note that c:\tmp must exist and that the DICTDIR variable should be defined (see the preparation page). Also, see the comment regarding ispell on the test page.

Ghostscript 8.54

Run gs854w32.exe
Choose c:\program files\ghostgum\gs as installation directory
Accept everything else

Ghostview 4.8

Run gsv48w32.exe
Choose c:\program files\ghostgum\ghostview as installation directory
Accept everything else

MikTeX 2.5

Run setup.exe from the directory, where you downloaded Miktex.
When prompted for "Path to installation folder", choose c:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.5
When prompted for "Create local TEXMF tree", choose c:\Local TeX Files as "Path to root folder"
Accept everything else
Restart (might not be needed)

Test: You should now be able to go through the test.