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Emacs 20 is no longer supported, and neither is XEmacs with a
version of xemacs-base older than 1.84 (released in sumo from
02/02/2004). Using preview-latex requires a version of Emacs compiled
with image support. While the X11 version of Emacs 21 will likely
work, Emacs 22 is the preferred platform.
Precompiled versions are available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/.
A precompiled version including an installer as well as preinstalled versions of AUCTeX and preview-latex is available from http://homepage.mac.com/zenitani/emacs-e.html.
Debian provides ‘emacs22-gtk’ (probably preferable) and ‘emacs22’ packages in its ‘unstable’ distribution.
Fedora 8 comes with Emacs 22.1 and Fedora 7 comes with a developer version of the same.
openSUSE 10.3 comes with Emacs 22.1. For some earlier openSUSE versions, Emacs 22.1 is available from http://packages.opensuse-community.org/.
Compiling Emacs yourself requires a C compiler and a number of tools and development libraries. Details are beyond the scope of this manual. Instructions for checking out the source code can be found at http://savannah.gnu.org/cvs/?group=emacs.
If you really need to use Emacs 21 on platforms where this implies missing image support, you should disable the installation of preview-latex (see below).
While XEmacs (version 21.4.15, 21.4.17 or later) is supported, doing this in a satisfactory manner has proven to be difficult. This is mostly due to technical shortcomings and differing API's which are hard to come by. If AUCTeX is your main application for XEmacs, you are likely to get better results and support by switching to Emacs. Of course, you can improve support for your favorite editor by giving feedback in case you encounter bugs.
Well, AUCTeX would be pointless without that. Processing documentation requires TeX, LaTeX and Texinfo during installation. preview-latex requires Dvips for its operation in DVI mode. The default configuration of AUCTeX is tailored for teTeX or TeXlive-based distributions, but can be adapted easily.
This is needed for operation of preview-latex in both DVI and PDF mode. Most versions of Ghostscript nowadays in use should work fine (version 7.0 and newer). If you encounter problems, check (preview-latex)Problems with Ghostscript section `Problems with Ghostscript' in the preview-latex manual.
texinfo package
Strictly speaking, you can get away without it if you are building from the distribution tarball, have not modified any files and don't need a printed version of the manual: the pregenerated info file is included in the tarball. At least version 4.0 is required.
For some known issues with various software, see (preview-latex)Known problems section `Known problems' in the preview-latex manual.
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