The most up-to-date information about this CD can be found on the WWW at http://www-users.york.ac.uk/~spe1/cd/
Installation instructions are immediately after the following:
I have assembled this CD in the hope that it will be useful, but neither I nor the Department of Mathematics can accept any responsibility for its operation.
The programs on this CD are from a variety of sources and are distributed under a variety of licenses, but they are all freely distributable for non-commercial purposes. Any charge levied by the Department of Mathematics is to cover duplication costs only; you are not being charged for the software. You are free to copy this CD or use it to install the software it contains on any number of computers, subject to the licenses governing each piece of software.
This CD has been assembled and tested under Windows 98SE and Windows 2000. I expect it to work under 95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000 and XP but this has not been extensively tested.
Please read the likely problems section before reporting problems, and please note also that in many cases I have included software at the suggestion of a colleague and know nothing about it myself!
Simon Eveson
spe1@york.ac.uk
GhostView | 4.4 | viewing and printing PostScript files | Reading files from our website |
GhostScript | 8.00, 8.10 (beta) | PostScript interpreter used by GhostView | |
MiKTeX | 2.3 | TeX, LaTeX, etc. | Mathematical Writing course, final-year project |
York LaTeX environment | MicroEMACS front end, some extra files for MiKTeX | Mathematical Writing course, final-year project | |
R | 1.7.1 | general-purpose statistical software | Introduction to Linear Regression course, final-year projects |
Octave | 2.1.36 | Matlab clone for numerical calculation | MSc courses |
gnuplot | 3.7.3 | graph plotting, standalone or from Octave | MSc courses, final-year projects |
Dev-C++ | 4, 5 (beta) | C++ development system | C Programming course, final-year projects |
winbugs | 14 | "aims to make practical MCMC methods available to applied statisticians" (whatever that means) | final-year projects |
arc | 1.04 | "a free statistical analysis tool for regression problems" | final-year projects |
If you have autorun enabled, on inserting the CD you should see an Explorer window called "maths_cd" showing the contents of the top level of the CD (it might be hidden behind this window; if it's not there, open My Computer, right-click on your CD or DVD drive and click on Explore). Files and folders mentioned below are in this window unless otherwise stated.
Since almost nobody will want to install all of this stuff, and most of these programs have their own installation wizards, I haven't supplied a single, overarching installation tool: you'll need to install individually the bits you want. However, I have provided two scripts which run existing installers consecutively (and in the right order!): one for GhostScript/GhostView and one for the whole TeX setup.
I generally say "don't change the default settings" below. Obviously you can change them to reconfigure things, but if you want to do this then make sure you change them all consistently, and don't expect much help if it doesn't work! One hint: the extra York stuff is normally installed in c:\localtexmf. If you put this somewhere else, you must tell MiKTeX by appropriately setting "local texmf tree" in the MiKTeX installation wizard.
Do this if you want to be able to read and print PostScript files (e.g. from our website). If you're installing TeX, GhostScript and GhostView are included: they don't need to be installed separately.
If you have problems with this you might have more success running the installation programs separately: see manual installation below.
Double-click the "setup_ghost" icon to run the two installers in succession, and then follow the instructions. All the defaults are sensible, so just leave them alone. If you have an existing installation of GhostView, you might be asked if you want to uninstall it; say yes. If you're given a list of versions of GhostScript and asked to choose one, choose 8.00.
When it's finished, there will be various Explorer windows and possibly a "Finished" command prompt or MSDOS prompt window; you'll have to close these manually.
Double-click the "setup_tex" icon and follow the instructions. This one runs four separate installation wizards back to back (GhostScript, GhostView, extra York stuff, MiKTeX), so it goes on a bit; but the defaults are all sensible, so by and large you just have to keep clicking OK and Next until it finishes, with the following exceptions:
Note that MiKTeX can take quite a a while to install. I timed it on one machine at 5 minutes before the progress meters even started moving, then a further 15 to complete the installation.
When it's all over, you'll find an icon on the desktop called "LaTeX via MicroEMACS" and also a group in the start menu. You'll also find a MiKTeX group in the start menu, but under normal circumstances you won't need to use this.
Restart the computer before you try to use TeX.
If you have problems with this you might have more success running the installation programs separately: see manual installation below.
Installation wizards for all these are in the "distributions" folder: open it and double-click on the appropriate file.
R | rw1071.exe (see also README.rw1071.txt) |
octave | octave+forge.exe |
Dev-C++ 5 | devcpp4980.exe |
arc | arc32.exe |
winbugs | winbugs14.exe |
In each case, just follow the instructions to install the software and some combination of start menu and desktop shortcuts (or possibly not: arc failed to install a shortcut on my office PC, but that's probably because it doesn't understand the user profiles stuff in Windows 2000 Pro).
Since version 5 is a beta release, you might prefer to run 4. You'll need to unzip the file devcpp4.zip in the "distributions" folder to a temporary folder somewhere and run setup.exe. There's an unzipper in the "tools" folder (wiz502xN.exe) if you haven't got one. I'm assuming anyone in the market for a C compiler doesn't need any more detailed instructions than this!
This doesn't seem to come with an installation wizard. You'll need to unzip the file gp373w32.zip in the "distributions" folder to an appropriate folder and sort out shortcuts etc. by hand. See also the documentation in gpdoc.zip. There's an unzipper in the "tools" folder (wiz502xN.exe) if you haven't got one.
You should use this section if you don't trust my installation script or if it failed for some reason. Make sure you do these in the order stated.
c:\localtexmf\microemacs\mewin.exe @c:\localtexmf\microemacs\texmenu.cmdand click on Next (you can cut and paste: highlight the above line, press Ctrl-C, click in the Command Line box, press Ctrl-V). Type in a suitable name like "TeX via MicroEMACS" and click on Finish. The default startup directory isn't very sensible in this case, so you might want to change it. To do this, right-click on the MicroEMACS icon on the desktop, click on Properties and in the Start In box type c:\ as a neutral starting point, or the name of the folder you keep your TeX files in. You can set up start menu shortcuts to the same target, of course.
force_9x_me | if you have Windows 95/98/ME |
bludgeon_9x_me | if force_9x_me didn't work |
force_2k_xp | if you have Windows 2000/XP |
force_exec | if nothing else works |
restore_auto | to revert to the installation defaults. |