On 5/24/06, Neal Lester
At 12:49 AM 5/24/2006, you wrote:
Neal Lester wrote:
I am trying to verify my installation.
When I try to run texexec against the test file given in the installation instructions I don't get a dvi or pdf file. The output is:
What instructions did you follow, precisely? I see some problems in your output, but it will be easier to explain using those instructions.
I followed the instructions at:
http://www.pragma-ade.nl/general/manuals/minstall.pdf
First I used the TeX that came with my Linux distribution (RedHat Enterprise Linux v4) but that didn't work (perhaps it was too old). Then I installed teTeX ( http://www.tug.org/tetex/ ) which came with an old version of context that got in the way. I removed that old version and installed the version from here ( http://www.pragma-ade.nl/context/current/cont-tmf.zip ).
The cont-tmf.zip archive doesn't (directly) update programs (texmfstart, texexec, etc.) Tetex's texexec is a script that runs perl on the result of 'kpsewhich -format=texmfscripts texexec.pl'. You need to make sure kpsewhich finds the new texexec.pl. You can also try the version I posted recently that looks for the ruby scripts. I like to keep context in a separate tree, texmf-cont, so it is easy to see what files comes from cont-tmf in logs, etc.
Thomas Esser has (apparently just) announced that he will no longer be maintaining teTeX. Which version of TeX do you recommend I install?
Hans mentioned the minimal context linux distribution.
Red Hat will have to make a decision about TeX. In the interim, you
may have to do a bit of extra work to stay current. The nice thing
about teTeX and TeX Live is that they have been designed so they can
be self-contained, with texmf trees and binaries under one top-level
directory so you can add and remove them without the need for a
package manager to keep things sorted.
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George N. White III