Download for UNIX-style systems
AUCTeX distribution files
You can get the distribution files of the latest AUCTeX release including preview-latex in the following formats along with signature files for validation:
- Gzipped tarball
- auctex-11.84.tar.gz (signature)
- Zip archive
- auctex-11.84.zip (signature)
If you are using SUSE GNU/Linux you can use the following RPM files for easy installation:
- RPM for SUSE (Emacs only)
- auctex-emacs-11.84-1.suse.noarch.rpm (signature)
- Source RPM for SUSE
- auctex-11.84-1.suse.src.rpm (signature)
For Fedora Core you can use these:
- RPM for Fedora Core (Emacs only)
- auctex-emacs-11.84-1.fedora.noarch.rpm (signature)
- Source RPM for Fedora Core
- auctex-11.84-1.fedora.src.rpm (signature)
If you are into XEmacs and want to spare yourself the hassle of building AUCTeX you can use the following ready-made XEmacs package.
- XEmacs package
- auctex-11.84-pkg.tar.gz (signature)
AUCTeX's manual and reference card for key bindings can be found in the 11.84-extra directory as PostScript and PDF files.
Software requirements
In order to use AUCTeX the following software is required in addition:
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A recent version of Emacs or XEmacs:
For XEmacs, you need at least version 1.84 of the xemacs-base package (released on 01/27/2004) or a sumo tarball from or newer than 02/02/2004.
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A TeX system:
Two popular systems are teTeX and TeX Live which may also be available via the package system of your operating system distribution.
- Ghostscript for generating PostScript and other output. Required by preview-latex.
Past releases
Older releases and accompanying files can be found in the download directories http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/ or ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/auctex/.