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 * [EMAIL PROTECTED] * ************************ _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
