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Asked: 2011-10-21 06:57:12 +0800 CST

How to compile gedit LaTeX plugin?

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Because I'd like to use the Gedit LaTeX plugin that is unfortunately not available for Gedit 3.2 in the repositories, I want to compile it myself. The most recent version you can get on http://git.gnome.org/browse/gedit-latex does support GNOME 3 's Gedit.

In the documentation it says:

Due to a limitation on reading Settings, the plugin currently must be installed in the same prefix as gedit. For instance if you are using gedit 3 from your distribution, you need to do

./configure --prefix=/usr make sudo make install

If you are using a 64bit distribution, you also need to pass --libdir=/usr/lib64 to ./configure script.

That's why I cded into the directory that contains the code, and tried to run ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64. Unfortunately, this does not work, giving the error message:

bash: ./configure: No such file or directory

Having checked the folder, there indeed is no file configure, but only configure.ac. What can I do to compile this plugin?

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2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    1. Library necessaries to build the configuration files

      sudo apt-get install intltool libtool

    2. Dependency necessary to compile this plug-ins

      sudo apt-get install gedit-dev

    3. Build the configuration file 

      touch config.rpath
./autogen.sh

    4. Configure and compile 

      ./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

    If you are using a 64bit distribution, you also need to pass --libdir=/usr/lib64 to ./configure script.

        ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64

    With a 64bit distribution, I also had to create two symbolic links, otherwise the plugin would not show up:

    sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/gedit/plugins/latex.plugin /usr/lib/gedit/plugins/
sudo ln -s /usr/lib64/gedit/plugins/latex /usr/lib/gedit/plugins/
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  2. Assuming you are using Ubuntu Oneiric 64-bit, you have to download and extract this http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gedit-latex/3.2/gedit-latex-3.2.1.tar.bz2. The intltool and libgtk-dev packages are needed, so you have to install them

    sudo apt-get install intltool libgtk-3-dev

    Once you've done that, cd into the directory gedit-latex-3.2.1 you extracted and run

    ./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64
make
sudo make install

    And everything should be fine.

    P.S. The LaTeX plugin uses rubber by default, so if you are not changing the compilation tools that are already there you should install (or check if installed) the packages: rubber, python-poppler, python-glade2, python-enchant and texlive.

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