Latex

[galois]

Any latex users iver here. I am trying to use latex in linux, but I'm having some problem. For example (very basic question) how do you check if the software is installed in your system, and how do you start the program? Any help?

[nick.stumpos]

don't use it, but if you installed through yum or rpm
rpm -q latex should tell you
or if you installed by source
whereis latex
or locate latex
note: you may have to updatedb first.
should find it for you

[mwette]

Here is the list from my yum.log.

Oct 26 21:50:52 Installed: tetex-fonts.i386 3.0-32.fc6
Oct 26 21:50:54 Installed: tetex-dvips.i386 3.0-32.fc6
Oct 26 21:51:00 Installed: tetex.i386 3.0-32.fc6
Oct 26 21:51:09 Installed: tetex-latex.i386 3.0-32.fc6
Oct 26 21:51:12 Installed: tetex-prosper.noarch 1.5-3.fc6
Oct 26 21:51:14 Installed: tetex-tex4ht.i386 1.0.2006_08_26_2341-2.fc6
Oct 26 22:26:20 Installed: jadetex.noarch 3.12-13.1.1
Nov 04 10:21:59 Installed: tetex-xdvi.i386 3.0-32.fc6
Nov 04 10:21:59 Installed: mimetex.i386 1.60-3.fc6
Nov 04 10:29:11 Installed: tetex-doc.i386 3.0-32.fc6

probably "yum install tetex-latex" will get you started.
I usually just edit files with emacs and run through latex. xdvi can be used
to preview. There is also "emacs-auctex" which provides a lot of hooks from
emacs. Another package that might be likeable is "lyx" (yum install lyx).
This is a sort-of WYSIWYG for LaTeX.