I need latex binary and dvips binary.  My Linux is poor.  Where do I
get it and how to install.

On Dec 14, 4:30 pm, Minh Nguyen <nguyenmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Mikie,
>
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Mikie <thephantom6...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Is the latex and dvips binary installed in the Sage directory?  If so
> > where?
>
> If you're asking whether or not LaTeX is distributed with Sage, the
> answer is no. If you're asking whether or not dvips is distributed
> with Sage, the answer is again no. The README.txt for Sage 4.2.1
> contains this section:
>
>    10. OPTIONAL: It is recommended that you have both LaTeX
>        and the ImageMagick tools (e.g., the "convert" command) installed
>        since some plotting functionality benefits from it.
>
> You don't need to have LaTeX or a LaTeX distribution installed on your
> system in order to install/use Sage. However, if you want to build the
> PDF version of the Sage standard documentation, then you definitely
> need to have LaTeX.
>
> --
> Regards
> Minh Van Nguyen

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