On 6/6/07, David Arnold wrote:
All,
I got myself in trouble by using gwTeX i-installer and tried to use Context Updater. The result was that the format files didn't match the base files (error message). Then I tried ctxtools --update. Now I have the font problem error described below.
Here's part of a log file prior to my problem. ... You can see that it is using this path: usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.pkgs.
After my attempts at updating, note that it is now using an entirely different area of my tex tree: ... Note the path: /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local
I think what I should have done after using i-installer, is try using texmfstart texexec --make --all.
Not sure how best to proceed. Does ctxtools have an uninstall?
No. But all that ctxtools did was fetching a new zip and unzipping files into /usr/local/gwTeX/texmf.local. If you didn't place anything else there, you may simply delete all the contents from that directory and run [sudo] mktexlsr (just to make sure that TeX won't think the files are still there) texexec --make --all (to remake the format)
Does ctxtools install in texmf.local by default?
Yes. And I'm not sure if fixing it makes sense (it does in some aspects, but I would not dare asking for it - Gerben's updater works just fine). In general it's better to use gwTeX's updater. It's always up-to-date. And make sure to use the TeXLive-based one. I never tried the MacTeX - it might work even better, but I have no experince with it. ctxtools --update is not necessary the best option for MikTeX and gwTeX (since you ignore/neglect the system's book-keeping about existing files and packages), but works perfectly wih standalone ConTeXt. Mojca