General ⇒ help with installation

[swong2]

Hey

I installed MikTex2.6. After that I installed TeXnicCenter. The configuration wizard of TeXnicCenter gave errors. The application 'LaTeX' has not been found in the directory of your TeX-distribution. Could someone help me out?

Stanley

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi Stanley,

welcome to the board!
The latest MiKTeX version is 2.7, perhaps you want to install this instead. Have a look here: TeXnicCenter configuration video This is a video about configuring TeXnicCenter with MiKTeX on youtube. Using version 2.5, but it shows the way.
If you still have questions, feel free to ask.

Stefan

[swong2]

Thanks Stefan!!

First time with Latex. Now time to explore latex. Hihi.

[William]

Hi guys,


I am completely new here and I need to install Texniccenter but I don't know how to do it.

Well, I got to this page

http://www.toolscenter.org/downloads.html

but there is to much information there and i was a litle bit confused with it. Can anybody help me please with the right directions?

Thank you.

[localghost]

Assuming that you are using Windows XP, just download the TeXnicCenter Setup Version 1 Beta 7.50 and start it. Make sure that you have installed MiKTeX 2.7 and Ghostscript 8.62 (perhaps together with GSview) before installing TeXnicCenter to get all build profiles generated. The Adobe Reader (or another PDF viewer) is needed to view PDF files.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten¹

[William]

I am using Vista. This changes anything?

[localghost]

I am using Vista. This changes anything?

Should not. Follow the advices of my recent post.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I confirm that it can be done this way on Vista too, I did it exactly this way, installed MiKTeX 2.7 and downloaded and started TeXnicCenter Setup Version 1 Beta 7.50 afterwards. No problem with Vista, beside that in general I prefer to use Linux, especially for work with LaTeX.

Stefan