[NTG-context] Re: Trouble installing on Alpine Linux

I figured it out! It was my own fault. Here's what happened. My $PATH already had “/opt” in it, for other binaries. I added the path to the `context` binary (which is a path inside /opt/context) to the end of $PATH. So invoking `context` created confusion because the first found item matching

[NTG-context] Re: Trouble installing on Alpine Linux

On 2024-06-24 at 01:31:46-06:00, Hans Hagen via ntg-context set forth: > Do you have a bin then? And ran mtxrun --generate --luatex ? > Hans Yes, at least I ran that command just now and it apparently succeeded. I just discovered something relevant and useful. Check this out: $ context

[NTG-context] Re: Trouble installing on Alpine Linux

On 2024-06-23 at 23:20:19-06:00, Henning Hraban Ramm set forth: > Does it work without --luatex, i.e. does it work for LMTX but not MkIV? > > mtxrun --generate --luatex works for me (on OSX), but context --make > --luatex doesn’t since forever. > > Hraban Yes, that command which is run by

[NTG-context] Re: Trouble installing on Alpine Linux

On 2024-06-23 at 05:25:32-06:00, Hans Hagen via ntg-context set forth: > i just tested again an install (using the latest musl installer) on an > alpine WSL instance and it works ok; i can also process a tex file (when > i set the path right as reported by the installer) > \starttext test

[NTG-context] Re: Trouble installing on Alpine Linux

On 2024-06-22 at 04:51:48-06:00, Bruce Horrocks set forth: > Not sure if this helps but a while back I was able to produce a Docker build > of Context based on Alpine. > > The instructions and Docker file are here: > Thank you,

[NTG-context] Re: Trouble installing on Alpine Linux

I tried manually specifying this format file, but then get this error: ``` $ context --fmt=/opt/context/tex/texmf-cache/luametatex-cache/context/5fe67e0bfe781ce0dde776fb1556f32e/formats/luametatex/cont-en.fmt /tmp/test.tex startup error : missing find_format_file callback ``` So I'm no longer

[NTG-context] Re: Trouble installing on Alpine Linux

On 2024-06-21 at 16:38:10-06:00, Bryan Kaplan via ntg-context set forth: > But attempting that first command gives me, “startup error : no format file > given, quitting”. My web search isn't helping. Do I need to specify some > format file, and if so which? To elaborate, I get the s

[NTG-context] Re: Trouble installing on Alpine Linux

On 2024-06-21 at 16:06:35-06:00, Bryan Kaplan via ntg-context set forth: > On 2024-06-21 at 15:51:44-06:00, Hans Hagen set forth: >> can you try again, use a new installer zip >> (i need to remember to generate musl bins myself pending build bot fix) > > Thank you so m

[NTG-context] Re: Trouble installing on Alpine Linux

On 2024-06-21 at 15:51:44-06:00, Hans Hagen set forth: > can you try again, use a new installer zip > (i need to remember to generate musl bins myself pending build bot fix) Thank you so much, Hans. My initial impression is: that worked! Don't forget to generate the musl bins yourself, pending

[NTG-context] Re: Trouble installing on Alpine Linux

On 2024-06-21 at 01:15:35-06:00, Hans Hagen via ntg-context set forth: > permissions? For Attempt #1, the “not found” mtxrun has 0755 permissions. I think the error is some odd side-effect of trying to run a glibc binary on a musl system. But I realized that I was confused by the installation

[NTG-context] Trouble installing on Alpine Linux

Hi all, I'm a *TeX novice trying and failing to install ConTeXt on Alpine Linux. *Attempt #1*: Following https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Installation • Error: • install.sh: line 109: /opt/context/bin/mtxrun: not found • That file does exist, but attempting to execute it fails with that