Re: [NTG-context] Linux upgrade

2006-07-11 Thread Taco Hoekwater
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 6/23/06, Taco Hoekwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>After following those instructions, everything should be ok except >>for the new ruby script links and texmfstart's warning. For >>that, do the following: >> >> * make sure you have ruby installed. If not, do th

Re: [NTG-context] Linux upgrade

2006-07-05 Thread gnwiii
On 6/23/06, Taco Hoekwater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John R. Culleton wrote: > > > > Let me start all over. Assuming a working TeX installation > > (either tetex or texlive 2005) what incantation must I perform to > [...] > After following those instructions, everything should be ok except > fo

Re: [NTG-context] Linux upgrade

2006-07-05 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Hans Hagen wrote: > Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> >> utilities. It also provides some useful things like ifchanged and >> iftoughed. There is a texmfstart manual (bit out of date). Simply >> > the source is updated, but not yet the pdf -) Had a look at the updated manual and learn

Re: [NTG-context] Linux upgrade

2006-06-24 Thread Peter Münster
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, John R. Culleton wrote: > Well I downloaded the two files, catenated them into one called > tetex.rpm, and then tried to unpack the result with rpm -i tetex.rpm > I got a fistful of spurious error messages. So I missed something > somewhere. Any hints? Hello John, the binary

Re: [NTG-context] Linux upgrade

2006-06-23 Thread John R. Culleton
On Friday 23 June 2006 12:34 pm, Peter Münster wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, John R. Culleton wrote: > > So next I tried linux binaries only. Still no joy. > > Hello John, > you could try the tetex-rpm from http://pmrb.free.fr/work/OS/ConTeXt/tetex/ > It has the latest ConTeXt (also latest pdfTeX a

Re: [NTG-context] Linux upgrade

2006-06-23 Thread John R. Culleton
On Friday 23 June 2006 12:34 pm, Peter Münster wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, John R. Culleton wrote: > > So next I tried linux binaries only. Still no joy. > > Hello John, > you could try the tetex-rpm from http://pmrb.free.fr/work/OS/ConTeXt/tetex/ > It has the latest ConTeXt (also latest pdfTeX a

Re: [NTG-context] Linux upgrade

2006-06-23 Thread Hans Hagen
Aditya Mahajan wrote: > > utilities. It also provides some useful things like ifchanged and > iftoughed. There is a texmfstart manual (bit out of date). Simply > the source is updated, but not yet the pdf -) -

Re: [NTG-context] Linux upgrade

2006-06-23 Thread Peter Münster
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, John R. Culleton wrote: > So next I tried linux binaries only. Still no joy. Hello John, you could try the tetex-rpm from http://pmrb.free.fr/work/OS/ConTeXt/tetex/ It has the latest ConTeXt (also latest pdfTeX and MetaPost) and a command "updateConTeXt.sh" to easily update t

Re: [NTG-context] Linux upgrade

2006-06-23 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, John R. Culleton wrote: > On Thursday 22 June 2006 09:37 pm, Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> Hi John, >> Others will be able to tell you better on how to upgrade on Linux (I >> myself use windows) but >> >>> standard /usr/share/texmf tree. No joy. I get messages telling me to use >

Re: [NTG-context] Linux upgrade

2006-06-23 Thread John R. Culleton
On Thursday 22 June 2006 09:37 pm, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > Hi John, > Others will be able to tell you better on how to upgrade on Linux (I > myself use windows) but > > > standard /usr/share/texmf tree. No joy. I get messages telling me to use > > the texmfstart command instead. This is as I reca

Re: [NTG-context] Linux upgrade

2006-06-23 Thread luigi scarso
I use texlive under linux . 1) I have an installation from texlive with context under /usr3/TeX 2) I have this script PATH=/usr3/TeX/bin/i386-linux:$PATH So when I want use this installation, I open a shell and write $>export PATH=/usr3/TeX/bin/i386-linux:$PATH Now /usr3/TeX become 'standard tex'

Re: [NTG-context] Linux upgrade

2006-06-23 Thread Taco Hoekwater
John R. Culleton wrote: > > Let me start all over. Assuming a working TeX installation > (either tetex or texlive 2005) what incantation must I perform to I think it is slighty better to start with TeXLive than with teTeX because it is a bit newer so you do not have to update as much, but you m

Re: [NTG-context] Linux upgrade

2006-06-22 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi John, Others will be able to tell you better on how to upgrade on Linux (I myself use windows) but > standard /usr/share/texmf tree. No joy. I get messages telling me to use the > texmfstart command instead. This is as I recall a Windows thingie. you need texmfstart on linux also. Does ever

[NTG-context] Linux upgrade

2006-06-22 Thread John R. Culleton
I have been working with two versions of TeX, neither one of which is new enough to accomodate all the latest Context bells and whistles. I tried downloading context.zip and installing it on my standard /usr/share/texmf tree. No joy. I get messages telling me to use the texmfstart command instead.