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