@all who have tried to install kerTeX and have failed, what is needed?

1) make sure that "Development Tools" is installed, if it is not then, as root 
user
# yum groupinstall "Development Tools"

2) install flex-static, flex and bison are installed but libl.a, or libfl.a are 
not in /usr/lib/ or /usr/lib64 and are not found, ./get_mk_install.sh will fail 
with report that it is missing:

for 32 bit fedora 
=========================================
rkconfig:  Checking LEXLIB: not found!
rkconfig:  There were 1 libes not found! Stop!
rkconfig:
rkconfig:  LEXLIB is missing:
rkconfig:
LEXLIB
       The library provided by the LEX program, `libl' or `libfl' if `flex'
       is installed and the symlink libl.a has not been made to libfl.a

=========================================

for 64 bit fedora 
=========================================
rkconfig:  Checking LEXLIB: not found!
rkconfig:  There were 1 libes not found! Stop!
rkconfig:
rkconfig:  LEXLIB is missing:
rkconfig:
LEXLIB
       The library provided by the LEX program, `libl' or `libfl' if `flex'
       is installed and the symlink libl.a has not been made to libfl.a
=========================================
# yum install flex-static 

solves this problem so make sure it is installed before you run the script.

$ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/get_mk_install.sh

The script runs as regular user, there is no need to run it as root.  

$ chmod +x get_mk_install.sh

then you may download the rest of the packages available

$ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/amstex.sh
$ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/latex.sh
$ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/graph...@latex.sh
$ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/ba...@latex.sh
$ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/cyril...@latex.sh
$ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/a...@latex.sh
$ wget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/cr...@latex.sh
$ chmod +x *.sh

then run 
$ ./amstex.sh install
will install amstex
$ ./latex.sh install
will install latex 
$ ./graph...@latex.sh 
will install graphics capabilities for latex

and so on.

Paths will need to be added manually to ~/.bash_profile for the shell to find 
tex in case you take the initiative to install it.  It can comfortable live 
with texlive, and tetex in that it does not aim to take over as the main tex 
distribution.  

dvipdfm, pdftex, pdflatex are not found in KerTeX.  But dvips is present and 
outputs to postcript.  AMSLatex was recently added as a package.  It is a small 
and portable TeX Distribution.  

To include graphics in latex documents, use
\usepackage[dvips]{graphicx}

In case you run into trouble with fonts/font generation when using -G option in 
dvips
$ dvips -G -t letter $1.dvi > $1.ps 

then, as root user
# echo ';ams;' > /usr/local/share/kertex/fonts/mf/KXPATH 

as it has this bug.  It will be fixed shortly.  

Should you take the plunge to try out kerTeX, and have questions, comments, 
observations, please let me know so I can help if needed.

Regards,


Antonio 
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