I've just dowloaded the ConTeXt form the website http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm I've downloaded both the "the main CONTEXT distribution" as well as "the minimal CONTEXT distribution (linux)" Both distributions give me a bunch of directories and scrits, but no instructions on where to put what. With the linux distrubtion, I was given a setuptex script. I ran this, and got nothing. I opend this script and uncommented the following lines and put them at the bottom of the script: # mktexlsr # texexec --make --alone I seemed to get a successful make, but then when I ran texecec I got the following message: This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-HO20020731-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7) kpathsea: Running mktexfmt cont-en.efmt fmtutil: no info for format `cont-en'. Sorry, I can't find the format `cont-en.efmt'; will try `context.efmt'. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.efmt fmtutil: no info for format `context'. I can't find the format file `context.efmt'! I got the same exact message when I ran perl texecec.pl with the main CONTEXT distribution. I already have a working distribution of TeX on my system. I know I need to move some directories around and set up PATH to find the executable, but I am at a loss what to move. Thanks Paul PS Could you cc me? I am not a part of the mailing list yet. I subscribed yesterday and am waiting for the moderator to approve me. -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry@iglou.com * ************************
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 18:24:47 -0500, Paul Tremblay
I've just dowloaded the ConTeXt form the website
http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm
I've downloaded both the "the main CONTEXT distribution" as well as "the minimal CONTEXT distribution (linux)"
How about teTeX 3.0 ? I use it in my FC3 box and ConTeXt works very well :)
Responding to my own email. I finally found the documentation for installing ConTeXt burried in one of the distribution I downloaded. However, this documenttion only told me to unzip the archive in the appropriate directory. It did not tell me what that appropriate directory was. This page explained mor explicitly what to do: http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html#install It told me to unzip the archive in the actual texmf directory and to overwrite existing files. I did't do this before because I didn't think I was supposed to overwrite existing files. Actually, my first step in installing ConTeXt was to get a completely new installation of LiveTeX. I had a lot of problems installing this. When I ran texconfig, I was told that there was no config file in //temfm/web2c. When I looked, sure enough, the config file was there. The problem was that my old installation had put all the scripts, such as kpsewhich in /usr/bin and my system was reading these executables. I had to write a script comparing /usr/TeX/bin/i386-linux/ (my current directory for TeX scripts) to /usr/bin (my old directory). If the same executable was found in my old direcotry, I removed it. After that, TeX worked fine. I then unzipped the ConTeXt archive in the texmf directory, followed the instructions above, and seem to have gotten everything working. This took me two days to figure out, though! It was frustrating because I was able to get ConTeXt working on my girfriend's Macintosh simply by using an install package. I hope someone will find these brief notes helpful. Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry@iglou.com * ************************
Paul Tremblay wrote :
Both distributions give me a bunch of directories and scrits, but no instructions on where to put what.
you can put the minimal context in for instance mkdir /mytex after that run . /mytex/setuptex /mytex make sure that the file in /mytex/texmf-linux/bin path have the x flag set texexec --make --all should work then
This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-HO20020731-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7) kpathsea: Running mktexfmt cont-en.efmt fmtutil: no info for format `cont-en'. Sorry, I can't find the format `cont-en.efmt'; will try `context.efmt'. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt context.efmt fmtutil: no info for format `context'. I can't find the format file `context.efmt'!
strange, we have a newer pdftex version now; also, efmt is replaced by fmt
I already have a working distribution of TeX on my system. I know I need to move some directories around and set up PATH to find the executable, but I am at a loss what to move.
you can keep the minimal context in a separate three; the setup script isolates it from other tex's on your system
Could you cc me? I am not a part of the mailing list yet. I subscribed yesterday and am waiting for the moderator to approve me.
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