On 5/25/06, Neal Lester
How I installed Context in /usr/local on Redhat EL WS v4 using BASH:
Verify that the native RedHat version of tetex is not installed on your system; it is not compatible with Contex:
Actually, it is possible to have both without resorting to virtualizaton, and tetex is required by other packages (to build documentation). TeX Live and the minimal ConTeXt you installed are both structured so all the files are under a single top-level directory (but, because some installs may put the files on a read-only filesystem, some generated files may end up under the user's home directory). For TeX Live all you have to do is make sure the bin/<arch> directory is before /usr/bin in the PATH, while the minimal ConTeXt uses the variables set by "setuptex". I use the environment modules package to switch between distros (e.g., Red Hat's teTeX when building packages from .src.rpm's, TeX Live for my documents, and one or more "test" distributions).
George, taco, thank you for the help.
You are very welcome. Not everyone is as persistent or willing to
provide adequate detail so they can be helped.
I'm sure that there are dozens of people who have encountered the
"unzip -a" problem in mktexlsr and either got around it without
reporting the problem or just gave up on ConTeXt.
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George N. White III