General ⇒ latex: command not found

[BojanKostadinov]

Hello,
I've installed MediaWiki on my account and I'm trying to bundle it with some math formula...

I've read an article about installing latex on hostmonster and I've followed it completely.. Everything worked ok (compiling, builing, ....), but, for some reason, I cannot use the latex command....

"which latex" returns nothing (null)
"which tex", "which convert", "which gs" are all OK

So, how come I cannot use latex? I thought it was included in the tetex package? What am I doing wrong?


Thanks

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi BojanKostadinov,

welcome to the board!
tetex has been obsolete since years, texlive is recommended instead. Perhaps try which pdflatex, it can also be used to generate dvi output.

Stefan

[pankaj]

Hi BojanKostadinov,

Me too using Tetex though Stefan_K is right that its obsolete nowadays and preferred is texLive nowadays.

Well i didnt have any problem and of course Latex is included in tetex package.

Perhaps u missed something in installing tetex. I used this link to install n it works fine. May be this can help you.

http://www.tug.org/tetex/tetex-src/INSTALL

Hope this works well for you.