View source for Processing LaTeX with GNU/Linux systems

Suppose you have a file <code>sample.tex</code> written in LaTeX and you want to process it into a readable document on a GNU/Linux system.

To convert it into a DVI file go to a command line and move to the directory in which you saved the file.  There run <code>latex sample.tex</code>.  Unless there is a problem you should now find a file called <code>sample.dvi</code> in the directory.

To convert this into a PS postscript file which you can then print run <code>dvips sample.dvi</code>.

To convert this into a PDF file run <code>ps2pdf sample.ps</code>.