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.
I obtained the contents of this CD from reputable archives with up-to-date virus-checking software running on my computer. However, I cannot absolutely guarantee that this disc is virus-free and strongly advise you to have up-to-date anti-virus software running when you install programs from it (or any other source, for that matter).
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, Windows 2000 and Windows XP. I expect it to work under 95, 98, ME, and NT4, but this has not been 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 | 4.6 | viewing and printing PostScript files | Reading files from our website |
GhostScript | 8.14 | PostScript interpreter used by GhostView | |
MiKTeX | 2.4 | 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 | |
TeXnicCenter | A more conventional Windows editor for LaTeX files | Mathematical Writing course, final-year project | |
Adobe Acrobat Reader | 6.0.1 | viewing and printing PDF files | Reading files on our website, and many others. |
R | 1.9.1 | general-purpose statistical software | Introduction to Linear Regression course, final-year projects |
Octave | 2.1.42, 2.1.50a | Matlab clone for numerical calculation | MSc courses |
gnuplot | 4.0 | graph plotting, standalone or from Octave | MSc courses, final-year projects |
Dev-C++ | 4, 5 beta 9 | 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 | 1.06 | "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" 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 see
a separate window, asking if you want to uninstall it; if so, click on
Uninstall and, when it's finished, Exit. If you're given a list of versions
of GhostScript and asked to choose one, choose the one with the highest
number: presumably 8.14.
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, and I've heard of much slower installations than
that.
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.
If you prefer a more conventional Windows editor to MicroEMACS, try installing
TeXnicCenter: see next section.
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. There are two versions of Octave
because the download page on sourceforge notes of the newer one that
"initial tests show that it does not work on all machines". The older one
is probably safer. After installing WinBUGS, double-click on the text
file WinBUGS14_cumulative_patch... and follow the instructions to
install the latest updates.
Installation: Generalities
GhostScript and GhostView: automatic installation
TeX and friends: automatic installation
R, Octave, Dev-C++ 5 (beta), arc, WinBUGS, TeXnicCenter, Acrobat Reader:
automatic installation
R | rw1091.exe (see also README.rw1091.txt) | |
octave | octave-2.1.42-windows-atlas.exe | octave-2.1.50a-inst.exe |
Dev-C++ 5 | devcpp4990setup.exe | |
arc | arc32.exe | |
WinBUGS | winbugs14.exe (see also Manual14.pdf) | |
TeXnicCenter | TXCSetup_1Beta6_21.exe | |
Acrobat Reader | AdobeRdr60_enu_full.exe |
In each case, just follow the instructions to install the software and some combination of start menu and desktop shortcuts.
Since version 5 is a beta release, you might prefer to run version 4, which lives in the file devcpp4.zip in the "distributions" folder. Newer versions of Windows will show this as a compressed folder. If you have an older versions you'll need to unzip it into a temporary folder somewhere; there's an unzipper in the "tools" folder (wiz502xN.exe) if you haven't got one. Once you can see the files, run setup.exe. I'm assuming anyone in the market for a C compiler doesn't need any more detailed instructions than this!
This doesn't come with an installation wizard. You'll need to unzip the file gp400win32.zip in the "distributions" folder to an appropriate folder and sort out shortcuts etc. by hand. There's an unzipper in the "tools" folder (wiz502xN.exe) if you haven't got one (newer versions of Windows will show the zip file as a compressed folder).
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.
Under Windows XP or Windows 2000 (or, I suppose, NT4 in the highly
unlikely event anyone is using NT4!): right-click My Computer, click
Properties, click Advanced, click Environment Variables. In the list of
System Variables, click on Path, then click on Edit. At the end of the
"Variable value" box add
;c:\texmf\miktex\bin
Be sure to get this exactly right, including the semicolon.
Now you can click on OK a few times to get rid of all the My
Computer windows. If you have a copy of MicroEMACS running, close
it. The next time you open MicroEMACS, the TeX menu should work.
Under Windows 95, 98 or ME: edit c:\autoexec.bat and at the end of the
file add the line
set path=%path%;c:\texmf\miktex\bin
You now have to restart your computer before trying to
use TeX.
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. |
MiKTeX | http://www.miktex.org/ |
GhostView | http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/ |
GhostScript | http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/AFPL/ |
R | http://www.r-project.org/ |
Octave | http://octave.sourceforge.net/ |
gnuplot | http://www.gnuplot.info/ |
winbugs | http://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs/winbugs/contents.shtml |
arc | http://www.stat.umn.edu/arc/ |
Dev-C++ | http://www.bloodshed.net/ |
OpenOffice.org | http://www.openoffice.org/ |
WiZ | http://www.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/ |
TeXnicCenter | http://www.toolscenter.org/ |