TeX is installed slightly differently than a typical GNU package, these instructions will assume /usr/src to be the current working directory, containing the three TeX tar balls. Install TeX by running the following commands: mkdir -p /usr/share/texmf tar zxvf teTeX-src-&tex-version;.tar.gz && cd teTeX-&tex-version; && gzip -dc ../teTeX-texmf-&tex-version;.tar.gz \ | (umask 0; cd /usr/share/texmf; tar xvf -) && If the optional texmf source code tar ball was downloaded, untar it now: gzip -dc ../teTeX-texmfsrc-&tex-version;.tar.gz \ | (umask 0; cd /usr/share/texmf; tar xvf -) && ./configure --with-x=no --prefix=/usr \ --without-texinfo --with-system-ncurses --with-system-zlib \ --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin && make world && texconfig dvips paper letter && texconfig font rw LFS Systems prior to version 4.0 did not install zlib by default. Remove the --with-system-zlib option from the above commands if you do not have zlib installed.