Hi,
I maintained a AUR (Arch User Repository) package for context lmtx which was
called luametatex.
Arch recently introduced an official extra package for luametatex (the binary)
called ... well ... luametatex, which means that my package has a name conflict
with the official package and hence was deleted.
Arch also now provides an official texlive-context package for context. I
assume that it syncs with texlive. At present, texlive-context includes ConTeXt
2023.03.10.
So, I think that the AUR package is still useful. It is essentially just a
wrapper around the official install scripts and provides the latest release of
context lmtx (and user modules). So, I am renaming my old `luametatex` package
and am re-releasing it as `context-lmtx-bin`.
To use it:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/context-lmtx-bin.git
cd context-lmtx-bin
makepkg
sudo pacman -U context-lmtx-bin-<release-date>.pkg.tar.zst
This will install context lmtx in /opt/context-lmtx. This is in parallel with
any system installed context. I also keep the old .tar.zst files around. That
makes it easy to revert back to a previous version in case there is something
that doesn't work as expected in the latest release.
Note that by default the following third user modules are installed:
'filter' 'visualcounter' 'vim' 'tikz' 'typescripts'
This is obviously a biased list corresponding to what packages I use. To
install other packages, simply open the PKGBUILD file and change the _module
variable defined as:
_modules=('filter' 'visualcounter' 'vim' 'tikz' 'typescripts')
You can change it to
_modules=('--all')
to install all modules.
When using the package for the first time, run
source /opt/context-lmtx/setuptex
mtxrun --generate
For any future runs, simply use
source /opt/context-lmtx/setuptex
once in your shell. This adds /opt/context-lmtx/texmf-linux-{32,64}/bin to the
PATH variable, so the binaries provided by context-lmtx are found before the
system binaries.
The setuptex file provides a `resettex` function which removes the above path
from the PATH variable.
The setuptex file also sets a variable CONTEXDIST to 'lmtx'. This can be used
to set the value of PS1 variable (or similar) of your shell prompt to add a
visual reminder of which context installation you are using.
Let me know if there are any issues with this install.
Aditya
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