Hi David, Recently I updated to MacTeX 2008 which can be found at (thanks to Mojca…) www.uoregon.edu/~koch/MacTeX-2008.mpkg.zip After that, in a Terminal window I just did the usual thing: sudo ctxtools --updatecontext and my ConTeXt installation was updated smoothly. In order to update as well LuaTeX (which doesn't work out of the box), I have written a script named "generate-lua" containing the following lines: %%%%%%% begin file generate-lua source ok-lua cd /usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua sudo chmod 755 mtxrun.lua sudo chmod 755 luatools.lua cd mtxrun --selfupdate luatools --selfupdate luatools --generate luatools --ini --verbose --compile cont-en texexec --make --luatex en %%%%%%% end file generate-lua Then, when I need to have a working LuaTeX, in a Terminal window I say sh generate-lua In the above script another file is "sourced", namely the file "ok- lua" (also "sourced" at each opening of a Terminal window, since I have added the command "source ok-lua" into my ".bashrc" file) and it contains the following lines: %%%%%%% begin file ok-lua export TEXMFCACHE="/tmp" export TEXMFCNF="/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/web2c/" export TEXMF="{/Users/kavian/Library/texmf,/usr/local/texlive/2008/ texmf-config, /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var,/usr/local/texlive/2008/../texmf- local,/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmfdist,/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf,/ usr/local/texlive/texmf-local}" export LUAINPUTS="{/usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/tex/context/base,/ usr/local/texlive/texmf-local/scripts/context/lua}" export OSFONTDIR="{/Users/kavian/Library/Fonts,/Library/Fonts}" export TEXMFSCRIPTS="{$TEXMF/scripts/context/,$TEXMF/tex/context/base}" %%%%%%% end file ok-lua (In case you copy and paste the above lines, beware of the wrong linebreaks due to the e-mail client). In order to update to the latest binary of LuaTeX itself, I use svnX which can be found at http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/development_tools/svnx.html Using this application svnX one goes to the following URL in the window called "Repositories" svn://scm.foundry.supelec.fr/svn/luatex (one's User name is one's name, and the Password is one's e-mail address). Then you download the latest "trunk", and once the download is done, you say sh build.sh which builds a binary on your machine. Then you copy the binaries created with the above command (the script tells you where the binaries have been created), into /usr/texbin/ (at this point you need to copy with "sudo"). I have done this several times and I haven't had any problem… for the last two weeks :-) Then if again something changes in the futur, our gurus (who are lucky enough to be at the meeting in Slovenia…) will help us! Best regards: OK On 21 août 08, at 20:49, David Arnold wrote:
All,
If you have a MacTex installation, how can you safely update the context installation that comes with MacTex?
David Arnold College of the Redwoods Mathematics Department Eureka, CA 95501 (707) 476-4222 http://online.redwoods.edu/instruct/darnold/
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