2.1.1 Installation

MiKTeX installation is easy using a setup wizard supplied with the package. Do not, however, use the default installation folder name of Program Files\MiKTeX, or any other folder name that embeds a space, if you will also use L^ATEX2HTML with MiKTeX. I suggest that you instead tell MiKTeX to install under D:\texutils. You can then use the path names in Section A (and will be able to install the NRAO variant of L^ATEX2HTML without editing any configuration scripts).

MiKTeX does not require administrator privilege to instal, but on an NT system you should login as an administrator so that you can modify the path to make the tex and latex commands available while working in a document directory. For an installation on drive D:, you would add D:\texutils\miktex\bin\; to the path, for example.

Other configuration options can be set up from MiKTeX's own Windows interface at
Start|Programs|MikTeX2|MiKTeX Options.

The installed size of MiKTeX, including all common fonts and utilities but not the source code, is 73 Mbytes.

To uninstall MiKTeX, use Start|Settings|Control Panel|, then click on Add/Remove programs and again on MiKTeX 2 in the program list. The uninstaller will undo everything except the path changes.

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