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pdfetex is obsolete now; there should only be a pdftex binary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
Hans
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