[NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-09-29 Thread Jeremy Johnson
I'm having problems starting ConTeXt with texexec on my Gentoo system. I've installed ConTeXt using the MikTeX Package Manager: "for p in `mpm --list|grep context | tr -s [:space:] | cut -d ' ' -f 4`; do mpm --install=$p; done" followed by a "texhash" and an "updmap" for good measure, and I've u

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-09-29 Thread John R. Culleton
On Friday 29 September 2006 09:45, Jeremy Johnson wrote: > I'm having problems starting ConTeXt with texexec > on my Gentoo system. > > I've installed ConTeXt using the MikTeX Package Manager: Miktex is for Windows, not Linux. Try another distro, such as TeX Live or the the minimal distro at the C

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-09-29 Thread Steve Peter
On Sep 29, 2006, at 1:35 PM, John R. Culleton wrote: > On Friday 29 September 2006 09:45, Jeremy Johnson wrote: >> I'm having problems starting ConTeXt with texexec >> on my Gentoo system. >> >> I've installed ConTeXt using the MikTeX Package Manager: > > Miktex is for Windows, not Linux. There

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-09-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Steve Peter wrote: > On Sep 29, 2006, at 1:35 PM, John R. Culleton wrote: > > >>On Friday 29 September 2006 09:45, Jeremy Johnson wrote: >> >>>I'm having problems starting ConTeXt with texexec >>>on my Gentoo system. >>> >>>I've installed ConTeXt using the MikTeX Package Manager: >> >>Miktex is f

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-09-29 Thread Jeremy Johnson
> And it is best not to use it since it ships a context that > believes it is running on windows... > > Taco OK, I've uninstalled context: "mpm --uninstall=context" as well as all other context packages installed through mpm: for `f in mpm --list|grep context|grep ^i|tr -s [:space:]|cut -d ' ' -f

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-09-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, Looks like your update went fine excep that you have an old format file still on your disk: > > FatalError : Your format does not match the base files! Context source version used to generate cont-en.fmt: > FormatVersion : 2006.07.14 12:08 Current (runtime) source version: > File

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-09-30 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
> Search for the stale cont-en.fmt and delete it. Right -- most likely produced by fmtutil before you commented out the automatic regeneration of context formats. Same problem happens with other Unix installations, e.g. I got bit a few times on Debian and Ubuntu. Here's one way to find the cont-

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-09-30 Thread Jeremy Johnson
On Saturday 30 September 2006 09:55, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: > > Search for the stale cont-en.fmt and delete it. > > Right -- most likely produced by fmtutil before you commented out the > automatic regeneration of context formats. Same problem happens with > other Unix installations, e.g. I got bit

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-09-30 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
> So I simply copied /root/.texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex/* /var/lib/texmf/web2c/ > "texexec new.tex" seems to run OK now, without error. > I'll investigate further. You run texexec as root, I'm guessing, so that the formats will be visible to all users. However, that means they go into root's .tex

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-10-01 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/29/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Steve Peter wrote: > > There is now a MikTeX package manager for Linux. > > And it is best not to use it since it ships a context that > believes it is running on windows... But then it has to be fixed, not thrown away ... I bet that the main reason is one of th

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-10-02 Thread gnwiii
On 10/1/06, Mojca Miklavec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/29/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > Steve Peter wrote: > > > There is now a MikTeX package manager for Linux. > > > > And it is best not to use it since it ships a context that > > believes it is running on windows... ConTeXt should adjust