On Jan 15, 2008 7:47 PM, Aditya Mahajan
For those of you who have used mkiv under Ubuntu (or Debian, I suppose), had it worked "out of the box" or is "some assembly required"?
Can you use Debian sid repositories for Hardy? If so, Norbert Preining provides deb packages for context, texlive, luatex, and tex-gyre, which are fairly up-to-date, and may be the easiest way to get a fully working mkiv.
As I understand it, Dr Preining is the Debian maintainer of the context, luatex, &c. packages, and so the .debs on his website are previews of the official packages. I'd installed and uninstalled his packages trying to make things work, but only the install I did today actually produced PDF output from "texexec --luatex hello.tex". I did, however need to generate the format files; Norbert, can you please include that in the ConTeXt package set-up? (As an aside, texlive-xetex depends on a version of libpoppler that my Ubuntu system doesn't yet have.)
I use Gusty and have a almost fully working mkiv. I compiled luatex on my own, and had to set TEXMFCNF and LUAINPUTS variables in my shell.
Don't have them in the environment, only in kpathsea, but the compilation went OK. Is there a test file with mkiv-only features I can better test my installation on? --Joel