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7.3 Working on Cygwin
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Installing the required tools under Cygwin under Cygwin can be a
little tedious. Most of the required packages can be installed
using Cygwin's graphical installer, while netpbm and <span class="LaTeX">LaTeX</span>2HTML
must be installed from source.
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Start with a reasonably modern version of Cygwin. If you haven't
upgraded for a few years, now would be a good time.
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Using the Cygwin installer, make sure your Cygwin installation
includes Perl, Python, and the <span class="TeX">TeX</span> packages. Perl and Python
are located under the <span class="guilabel">Interpreters</span> heading. The
<span class="TeX">TeX</span> packages are located under the <span class="guilabel">Text</span>
heading, and are named <code>tetex-*</code>. To ensure that all
required packages are available, install every <code>tetex</code>
package, except <code>tetex-x11</code>. (There may be a more minimal
set, but I've not spent time trying to minimize the installation.)
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The netpbm package is used by <span class="LaTeX">LaTeX</span>2HTML, and <em>must</em> be
installed before <span class="LaTeX">LaTeX</span>2HTML can be successfully installed, even
though its features will not be used for most Python
documentation. References to download locations are located in
the <a class="ulink" href="http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/README"
>netpbm README</a>.
Install from the latest stable source distribution according to
the instructions. (Note that binary packages of netpbm are
sometimes available, but these may not work correctly with
<span class="LaTeX">LaTeX</span>2HTML.)
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<span class="LaTeX">LaTeX</span>2HTML can be installed from the source archive, but only
after munging one of the files in the distribution. Download the
source archive from the <span class="LaTeX">LaTeX</span>2HTML website
<a class="url" href="http://www.latex2html.org/">http://www.latex2html.org/</a> (or one of the many alternate
sites) and unpack it to a build directory. In the top level of
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Open <span class="file">L2hos.pm</span> in an editor, and near the bottom of the file
replace the text <code>$^O</code> with the text
<code>'unix'</code>. Proceed using this command to build and install
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