The first version known to work with preview-latex is Emacs-21.1. Since preview-latex heavily exercises new features of Emacs 21, getting the newest release is a good idea.
While image support for Emacs under Microsoft Windows has not been implemented as of version 21.3, it is under development and can be accessed by anonymous CVS at http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/emacs; please help in testing it before Emacs 21.4 gets released.
There is additional information for Windows installations in See Installation under MS Windows.
For XEmacs, at least version 21.4.9 is recommended. Earlier versions might be made to work with less than optimal results.
AUCTeX can be found at http://www.gnu.org/software/auctex.
This site now provides up-to-date beta and stable versions as well as
RPMs. At the time of this writing, the latest version is 11.14 which is
necessary for multi-directory documents. Apply the patch in
patches/auctex-11.13.patch
for 11.13 or earlier in case you are
hit by this bug. Apply the patch in patches/auctex-10.patch
for
versions before 11.0 if you really must, but complain to whoever stuck
you with them.
Preview should work with nearly any LaTeX installation which contains dvips, though most testing has taken place using teTeX-based distributions.
This is not really needed to install the package, but will be required for stable operation of it. Most problems we have encountered come from interaction with not so recent versions of GhostScript, so it is a good idea to have, say GhostScript 6.51 or later installed. preview-latex should in its current version work with most versions after that. If you encounter problems, check Problems with GhostScript.
texinfo
package
This is needed for building the documentation. At least version 4.0 is required. If you don't have this, you may download a separate tar file with the prebuilt documentation from Sourceforge and install it over the main unpacked tar archive.
For some known issues with various software, see Known problems.