Installing mathtex.cgi

In order to make and install mathtex.cgi, latex and dvipng are prerequisite. You need to install latex first and divpng will come along with it.

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.

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12 Comments

    1. Hi Vahid,

      The tarball size: less than 2.0 MB
      Uncompressed codes: less than 10.0 MB
      Installing: Around 2.0 GB

      Hope above information would help.

      Thanks,

      – Bread

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      – Bread

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