You can follow the instruction

1. http://www.forkosh.dreamhost.com/source_mathtex.html#install

Following will show how I have done with it for example.

# wget http://www.forkosh.com/mathtex.zip
# mkdir mathtex
# cd mathtex
# unzip ../mathtex.zip
# cc mathtex.c –DLATEX=\\"$(which latex)\\" \\
–DDVIPNG=\\"$(which dvipng)\\" –o mathtex.cgi
# cp mathtex.cgi /public_html/xxx.../cgi-bin/

For test of mathtex.cgi, in your web browser, you can do it by

www.example.com/cgi-bin/mathtex.cgi?x^2+y^2

It will give you the gif image showing equation by latex syntax.

• http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html
• http://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html

Followings are showing how I installed for example.

# wget http://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz
# tar -xvzf install-tl-unx.tar.gz
# cd install-tl-20091126
# ./install-tl

While running “install-tl”, I used ‘D’ option to change the directory to be installed, and ‘O’ to select ‘use letter size instead of A4 by default’ option.

It took around 1 hour to be installed. I have installed it in “~/texlive/” and latex and divpng are installed in “~/texlive/bin/x86_64-linux”

If you want to test the latex, please do

# latex small2e

It will give small2e.dvi in your directory. Using dvipng tool, you can make it gif or png image file.