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HI Sanjoy! (Taking of Mike, I am not sure whether he is interested in bug reports, he only gets all my announces since he was the first/most active tester) On Die, 02 Jan 2007, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
I'm using Ubuntu 6.10, so context_2006.12.27-1_all.deb wouldn't install without a --force-conflicts,overwrite,depends given to dpkg (Ubuntu still uses tetex 3.0). With that caveat, which may explain the buglet I saw, it mostly worked fine.
Isn't texlive in ubuntu? Maybe not in 6.10. Well all the forces are necessary, tetex and context provide some same files in /usr/bin
The buglet: The context formats that the package installed in /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex are not found. For example, "pdfetex '&cont-en'" tries to run mktexfmt. So I made a symlink from
Strange, does your texmf.cnf contain the following TEXFORMAT line: TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdfetex to /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex and then 'texexec' worked fine on my current document (a 50-page mathematics textbooklet).
(BTW, can you send me this file in private with all support stuff, I need context test documents, I wont publish it ;-)
I'm pretty sure the problem arose because I now use pdftex 1.40.0, which (I think) sets the engine to pdftex, even when it is called as pdfetex.
Umpf, yes. Well. If you prefer to hack everything yourself you have to expect bad things...
Not sure what the best solution is. The symlink is a bit of a hack.
THere is none. Stick with pdf(e)tex as shipped by tetex.
In the long run, it's good to get rid of the pdfetex/pdftex
This will be in TeX Live 2006...
engine. So until all surrounding programs are taught to use pdftex as the engine, this problem will occur and maybe the symlink is the solution.
All this will go into texlive-* 2006, as there is pdftex 1.40.0
Before I did the dpkg --force..., I was trying to simulate its effect in a custom script. So I looked through the ctxfmtutil script and was surprised to find that this texexec command (on line 38) worked:
No idea about this,
`Not all those who wander are lost.' (J.R.R. Tolkien)
;-)
Best wishes
Norbert
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