Re: [NTG-context] Ubuntu and Context MKIV

Al 22/08/10 23:43, En/na George N. White III ha escrit:

On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, Xan wrote:

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I file a bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/context/+bug/622253

Please, provide any comments you want.

What you have reported there is not a bug. After installing ConTeXt, you need to run (luatools --generate) as a normal user; only then mtx-contex.lua will be found.

The need to run "luatools --generate" is not sufficiently visible (it is in README.MarkIV). Any package that requires user configuration steps should have a mechanism to inform the user that such steps are required. I suspect the damage was already done by the time the OP tried "luatools --generate" , and was perhaps made worse by running the command from a root prompt.

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In your case, running luatools --generate does not help, and that is the bug.

You are right, but with a system like context it is sometimes better to avoid stressing the tools by following standard procedures.

The OP ended up with /etc/texmf/web2c/pdftex, which suggests that MkII and/or fmtutil tried to install formats under /etc/texmf/web2c. It may be too much to expect luatools to recover when things are not where they belong and files under $HOME are not owned by the user.

Thanks George of confirming the bug. In my opinion, the context package has to be ready for running. No intervention of user should be needed. For the other hand, I have problems running luatools, so we have a bug: or the first or the second. Xan.