You can choose between two ways to do the installation of the required tools: either go the convenient way and install binary distributions (no compilation required, just install out of the box), or get and compile a source code distribution. You will stick to the latter in case you have a special kind of operating system or want to make customisations prior to compilation such as applying source level patches. Windows users will probably want to read the section about installation on Windowswindowsinst.
For the best use of LATEX2HTML you want to get the latest versions of all the utilities that it uses. (It will still work with earlier versions, but some special effects may not be possible. The specific requirements are discussed below.)
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More specific requirements for using LATEX2HTML
depend on the kind of translation you would like to perform, as follows:
Note: Some systems lack any DBM support. 5 comes with its own database system SDBM, but it is sometimes not part of some Perl distributions.
The installation script install-test will check that for you. If no database system is found, you will have to install Perl properly.
Several of the filters in those libraries are used during the to GIF conversion.
If Ghostscript or the netpbm library are not available, it is still possible to use the translator with the no_images option.
If you intend to use any of the special featuressec:hyp of the translator then you have to include the html.sty file in any LATEX documents that use them.
If only a character-based browser, such as lynx, is available, or if you want the generated documents to be more portable, then the translator can be used with the ascii_mode optionoption (see Section )cs_asciimode.