On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Hans Hagen wrote: > Ernesto Schirmacher wrote: >> After many years as a LaTeX user I'm attempting to switch over to ConTeXt. >> >> I recently upgraded my operating system to Ubuntu 7.10 (on an AMD64 machine) >> and got the TeXLive and ConTeXt packages from the Ubuntu repositories. I >> tried compiling a very simple document: >> >> \starttext >> >> Hello this is \ConTeXt. >> >> \stoptext >> >> using the command: texexec simple.tex and got the following output on my >> terminal: >> >> TeXExec | processing document 'simple.tex' >> TeXExec | no ctx file found >> TeXExec | tex processing method: context >> TeXExec | TeX run 1 >> TeXExec | writing option file simple.top >> TeXExec | using randomseed 898 >> TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex >> TeXExec | tex format: cont-en >> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) >> %$-line parsing enabled. >> (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) >> ---! cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex >> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) >> TeXExec | runtime: 0.177424 >> >> >> Clearly something is not working properly and I suspect the incompatibility >> between >> This is pdfTeXk... >> and >> ---! cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex >> is the source of all trouble here. >> >> Could someone please point me in the right direction to resolve this? > > pdfetex is obsolete now; there should only be a pdftex binary > > since ubunto is based on debian i assume that they use the same > packages, so i cc to norbert
I can confirm that context works fine on ubuntu 7.10 (amd 64). I recently installed it on my laptop (fresh install of ubuntu), and followed the instructions on the wiki, and it worked. So, the ubuntu repository is ok. I cannot help with the problem since I am still trying to figure out the nitty gritty of linux. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
