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111<p>You should get the message:</p> 111<p>You should get the message:</p>
112<pre> 112<pre>
113installed 113installed
114</pre> 114</pre>
115<p>if Net::SMTP was installed successfully and an error message if it was not. </p> 115<p>if Net::SMTP was installed successfully and an error message if it was not. </p>
116<p>If you get an error message, you can force cn install by using the commands</p> 116<p>If you get an error message, you can force an install by using the commands</p>
117<pre> 117<pre>
118# perl -MCPAN -e shell 118# perl -MCPAN -e shell
119cpan> force install Net::SMTP 119cpan> force install Net::SMTP
120</pre> 120</pre>
121<p> This may or may not be appropiate depending on what the problem is. For example, 121<p> This may or may not be appropiate depending on what the problem is. For example,
128modules later.</p> 128modules later.</p>
129 129
130<p> You also have to install the GD module. Currently (Fall 2002) if you use CPAN to install GD, it will 130<p> You also have to install the GD module. Currently (Fall 2002) if you use CPAN to install GD, it will
131install the 2.01 version of GD.pm which requires the beta 2.0.1 version of gd. 131install the 2.01 version of GD.pm which requires the beta 2.0.1 version of gd.
132Unfortunately there is a known bug in gd 2.0.1 which prevents it from drawing horizontal dashed 132Unfortunately there is a known bug in gd 2.0.1 which prevents it from drawing horizontal dashed
133lines. We recommend using gd 1.8.4 and GD 1.33. gd is probably on your system. For GD, go to 133lines. We recommend using gd 1.8.4 and GD 1.33 or 1.29. gd is probably on your system. For GD, go to
134<a href="http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/GD/">http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/GD/</a>. 134<a href="http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/GD/">http://stein.cshl.org/WWW/software/GD/</a>.
135<p>As a normal user, download the tar/gzip archive for version 1.33 (or 1.29) and untar it:</p> 135<p>As a normal user, download the tar/gzip archive for version 1.33 (or 1.29) and untar it:</p>
136<pre> 136<pre>
137> tar -xzf GD.pm.tar.gz 137> tar -xzf GD.pm.tar.gz
138</pre> 138</pre>
455$externalLaTeX2HTMLPath 455$externalLaTeX2HTMLPath
456$externalLatexPath 456$externalLatexPath
457$externalDvipsPath 457$externalDvipsPath
458$externalGsPath 458$externalGsPath
459 These define the locations of the 'tth', 'dvipng', 'latex2html', 459 These define the locations of the 'tth', 'dvipng', 'latex2html',
460 'latex', 'dvips', and 'gs' programs, and are set to /usr/bin/tth, 460 'latex', 'dvips', and 'gs' programs, and are set to /usr/bin/tth,
461 etc. by default. Use `which latex', for example, to determine the 461 etc. by default. Use `which latex', for example, to determine the
462 location of the latex binary. 462 location of the latex binary.
463 463
464$dvipngMode, $dvipngDPI, $dvipngScaling, and $dvipngShrinkFactor 464$dvipngMode, $dvipngDPI, $dvipngScaling, and $dvipngShrinkFactor
465 These control the fonts produced by dvipng. Other than possibly trying 465 These control the fonts produced by dvipng. Other than possibly trying
466 ljfivemp, you probably should not change these unless you know what you 466 ljfivemp, you probably should not change these unless you know what you
467 are doing. 467 are doing.

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