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On Dec 23, 2007 4:47 AM, Joel C. Salomon wrote:
On Dec 21, 2007 9:17 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
Create $HOME/texmf. Download justtex.zip, and cont-tmf.zip, cont-fnt.zip from pragma's website, and unzip them inside $HOME/texmf. Download the font files from TeX Gyre and unzip then in $HOME/texmf.
Do I need to set the TEXMFHOME environment variable?
It depends on the installation. But TEXMFHOME is usually already set in texmf.cnf.
Also: will downloading linuxtex.zip to the same place give me up-to-date luatex, or will it just mess up my installation?
linuxtex.zip at pragma is from August, so you won't get the latest luatex with it. linuxtex at http://minimals.contextgarden.net/pragma/ has the latest luatex beta (+ reasonably latest other binaries and latest LM, TeX Gyre, ...), but might differ from the one at pragma. (I need feedback.)
Remake the formats, move the stubs and few programs to the path, and you are done.
Is there a command to remake the pdftex and xetex formats together?
Not at the moment. texexec -- make --all texexec -- make --all --xtx texexec -- make --all --lua
Rather than moving programs, might it be easier to add ~/texmf/<whatever>/bin to the PATH?
That's what setuptex in minimals does. Yes, if you're updating an exesting distribution, it might be easier and cleaner to add a variable to path than to overwrite the old binaries.
The only drawback of this is that you have to update manually. ctxtools --updatecontext unzip the file in TEXMFLOCAL, and not TEXMFHOME, so it does not work with this setup.
Hmm... will the rsync update work, or do I need to download the zips?
Of course it works. You have two options: a) rsync -flags rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/pragma/linux/ [your-favorite location] will give you the almost-latest binaries in one rsync run (there is also "justtex" for the common files). b) wget http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/linux/first-setup.sh or (same file): rsync -flags rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/linux/first-setup.sh and then run that file to get the whole distribution at the desired location. (experimental - someone needs to write support for local configuration) flags may be -av or whatever else seems more appropriate. Also, if you already have a working TeX distribution, you can write a few rsync calls yourself. At http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/ (= rsync://minimals.contextgarden.net/minimals/current/) you have: - current ConTeXt - almost-latest binaries - fonts any you can combine the stuff from there in some arbitrary way. Mojca