Aditya Mahajan wrote: > I noticed similar problem (texexec --lua fails without any useful > message) when I tried to install context on a new machine. I simply > downloaded context standalone installation, unzipped it, and ran > texexec --lua file. With pdftex this used to work because the formats > were located in the texmf tree. However, AFAIU, mkiv wants the > standards to be in the TEXMFCACHE directory (which is mapped to the > TEMP directory). So, simply getting the zip files from pragma does not > work. You also need to generate the formats.
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