# latex2html mit Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren

Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für latex2html in AI-Agent-Workflows.

## Installation

```sh
sudo av install brew:latex2html
```

Weitere Installationsbefehle:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install latex2html
```

  Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata

- MacPorts (94%):

```sh
sudo port install latex2html
```

  Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: print/latex2html/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

### Linux

- Debian apt (92%):

```sh
sudo apt install latex2html
```

  Evidenz: Debian stable package indexes: latex2html from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz

- dnf (92%):

```sh
sudo dnf install latex2html
```

  Evidenz: Fedora Rawhide package metadata: latex2html from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst

- Nix (92%):

```sh
nix profile install nixpkgs#latex2html
```

  Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/la/latex2html/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1

- pacman (92%):

```sh
sudo pacman -S latex2html
```

  Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: latex2html from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz

- zypper (92%):

```sh
sudo zypper install latex2html
```

  Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: latex2html from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst

## Paketfakten

- **Paketschlüssel:** brew:latex2html
- **Paketmanager:** Homebrew
- **Version:** 2026
- **Quellzusammenfassung:** LaTeX-to-HTML translator
- **Homepage:** <https://www.latex2html.org>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/latex2html/latex2html>
- **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00

## Executables

- latex2html (Alias)
- pstoimg (Alias)
- texexpand (Alias)

## Installationsverhalten

- Bottle: nicht verfügbar

## Version und Aktualität

- Seite generiert: 2026-08-03
- Manager-Version: 2026
## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung

LaTeX2HTML is a long-running LaTeX-to-HTML translator that turns LaTeX documents into linked web pages. It preserves document structure, navigation panels, cross-references, citations, footnotes, tables of contents, and many LaTeX constructs while converting heavily formatted content such as equations and figures to images when needed.

### Projektgeschichte

The project originated with Nikos Drakos at the Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds; the README names Drakos as the original author, and historical generated pages carry 1993 copyright notices. Ross Moore at Macquarie University later became a principal author listed in the README, with Marek Rouchal and Jens Lippmann listed as former authors.

LaTeX2HTML grew alongside the early web as an answer to a concrete publishing problem: authors already had structured LaTeX documents, while the web needed navigable HTML. Its feature set reflects that era, including generated navigation panels, hypertext cross-references, image conversion for equations, and support for raw HTML embedded in LaTeX.

The GitHub repository was created on 2016-06-27, providing a modern source-control home for a tool whose change log still records annual maintenance releases through the 2020s.

### Adoptionsgeschichte

LaTeX2HTML became a recognizable part of TeX and Unix publishing culture because many academic and technical sites used it to publish manuals, course notes, standards drafts, and software documentation as static HTML. The official site documents availability through Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Homebrew, and MacPorts.

Its adoption declined as PDF-first publishing, MathJax, Sphinx, Pandoc, and static-site generators became common, but it remains packaged because old document trees and automated build systems still depend on its particular HTML output model.

### Wie es verwendet wird

Users run `latex2html` on a LaTeX source file to generate a directory of linked HTML pages. Companion tools such as `pstoimg` and `texexpand` support image generation and source expansion, and the README points to `perldoc latex2html`, `latex2html -help`, and the docs directory for detailed usage.

### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

LaTeX2HTML is package-nerd significant because it captures the first wave of TeX-to-web conversion in a still-packaged command-line tool. It is also a dependency fossil: even if a new project would choose a newer converter, old documentation builds may require LaTeX2HTML's exact behavior.

For package maintainers, it is the kind of utility that forces careful dependency handling around Perl, TeX, Ghostscript, Netpbm, Poppler, dvips, and dvipng.

### Zeitleiste

- 1993: Historical copyright notices identify Nikos Drakos as author of early LaTeX2HTML releases.
- 1997-1999: Ross Moore copyright notices appear in generated LaTeX2HTML pages and the README lists him as a later principal author.
- 1999: The README records a TeX User Group mailing-list archive beginning in 1999.
- 2016-06-27: GitHub repository created.
- 2024-2026: Change log records maintenance releases for modern TeX and conversion issues.

### Related projects

- Related projects and tools include TeX Live, Ghostscript, Netpbm, Poppler, dvips, dvipng, Pandoc, HeVeA, TtH, Sphinx, and MathJax-era HTML math publishing.

### Quellen

- <https://api.github.com/repos/latex2html/latex2html>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/latex2html/latex2html/master/Changes>
- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/latex2html/latex2html/master/README.md>
- <https://www.latex2html.org/>


## Sicherheitshinweise

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- **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig
- narrow executable package without higher-risk signals


## Configuration and credential file locations

These source-backed paths show where this package keeps local settings or durable credentials. Automic Vault can use them as review targets for secret scanning, migration, and command approval.


## Configuration files

- Unix: $L2HCONFIG, ~/.latex2html-init, ./.latex2html-init
## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge

- Debian apt - latex2html - 2025+debian1-3: normalized package name match | Debian stable package indexes: latex2html from https://deb.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/main/binary-amd64/Packages.xz | LaTeX to HTML translator | https://www.latex2html.org/
- Nix - latex2html: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/la/latex2html/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- Ubuntu apt - latex2html - 2024-debian1-2: normalized package name match | Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package indexes: latex2html from https://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/noble/universe/binary-amd64/Packages.gz | LaTeX to HTML translator | https://www.latex2html.org/
- dnf - latex2html - 2026-2.fc45: normalized package name match | Fedora Rawhide package metadata: latex2html from https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/repodata/07190dc5ae9f35ae73866675fed6d95fe6e8d9fe22c9d7cdf85862cb2ed24a4c-primary.xml.zst | Converts LaTeX documents to HTML | https://github.com/latex2html/latex2html/releases
- pacman - latex2html - 2026-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: latex2html from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | a convertor written in Perl that converts LaTeX documents to HTML | https://www.ctan.org/pkg/latex2html
- zypper - latex2html - 2026-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: latex2html from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | LaTeX to HTML Converter | https://github.com/latex2html/latex2html/
- zypper - latex2html-doc - 2026-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: latex2html-doc from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Documentation for the Latex2HTML Converter | https://github.com/latex2html/latex2html/
- zypper - latex2html-pngicons - 2026-1.2: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: latex2html-pngicons from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Icons in the PNG format for LateX2HTML | https://github.com/latex2html/latex2html/
- MacPorts - latex2html: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: print/latex2html/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1


## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/latex2html.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/latex2html.yml)


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