After many years as a LaTeX user I'm attempting to switch over to ConTeXt. I recently upgraded my operating system to Ubuntu 7.10 (on an AMD64 machine) and got the TeXLive and ConTeXt packages from the Ubuntu repositories. I tried compiling a very simple document: \starttext Hello this is \ConTeXt. \stoptext using the command: texexec simple.tex and got the following output on my terminal: TeXExec | processing document 'simple.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file simple.top TeXExec | using randomseed 898 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) %$-line parsing enabled. (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) ---! cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) TeXExec | runtime: 0.177424 Clearly something is not working properly and I suspect the incompatibility between This is pdfTeXk... and ---! cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex is the source of all trouble here. Could someone please point me in the right direction to resolve this? Thanks in advance, Ernesto
Ernesto Schirmacher wrote:
Clearly something is not working properly and I suspect the incompatibility between This is pdfTeXk... and ---! cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex is the source of all trouble here.
Could someone please point me in the right direction to resolve this?
It could be that you still have and older cont-en.fmt on your disk somewhere from a previous tetex or texlive. The separate 'pdfetex' executable does not exist anymore since release 1.40, so that format file seems to be a leftover. Best wishes, Taco
Ernesto Schirmacher wrote:
After many years as a LaTeX user I'm attempting to switch over to ConTeXt.
I recently upgraded my operating system to Ubuntu 7.10 (on an AMD64 machine) and got the TeXLive and ConTeXt packages from the Ubuntu repositories. I tried compiling a very simple document:
\starttext
Hello this is \ConTeXt.
\stoptext
using the command: texexec simple.tex and got the following output on my terminal:
TeXExec | processing document 'simple.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file simple.top TeXExec | using randomseed 898 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) %$-line parsing enabled. (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) ---! cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) TeXExec | runtime: 0.177424
Clearly something is not working properly and I suspect the incompatibility between This is pdfTeXk... and ---! cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex is the source of all trouble here.
Could someone please point me in the right direction to resolve this?
pdfetex is obsolete now; there should only be a pdftex binary since ubunto is based on debian i assume that they use the same packages, so i cc to norbert Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Hans Hagen wrote:
Ernesto Schirmacher wrote:
After many years as a LaTeX user I'm attempting to switch over to ConTeXt.
I recently upgraded my operating system to Ubuntu 7.10 (on an AMD64 machine) and got the TeXLive and ConTeXt packages from the Ubuntu repositories. I tried compiling a very simple document:
\starttext
Hello this is \ConTeXt.
\stoptext
using the command: texexec simple.tex and got the following output on my terminal:
TeXExec | processing document 'simple.tex' TeXExec | no ctx file found TeXExec | tex processing method: context TeXExec | TeX run 1 TeXExec | writing option file simple.top TeXExec | using randomseed 898 TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex TeXExec | tex format: cont-en This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) %$-line parsing enabled. (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) ---! cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) TeXExec | runtime: 0.177424
Clearly something is not working properly and I suspect the incompatibility between This is pdfTeXk... and ---! cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex is the source of all trouble here.
Could someone please point me in the right direction to resolve this?
pdfetex is obsolete now; there should only be a pdftex binary
since ubunto is based on debian i assume that they use the same packages, so i cc to norbert
I can confirm that context works fine on ubuntu 7.10 (amd 64). I recently installed it on my laptop (fresh install of ubuntu), and followed the instructions on the wiki, and it worked. So, the ubuntu repository is ok. I cannot help with the problem since I am still trying to figure out the nitty gritty of linux. Aditya
Hi Hans, hi all! (Don't see Ernesto's email adr, so to the list, Hans in case please forward it to him) On Fr, 02 Nov 2007, Hans Hagen wrote:
I recently upgraded my operating system to Ubuntu 7.10 (on an AMD64 machine) and got the TeXLive and ConTeXt packages from the Ubuntu repositories. I tried compiling a very simple document:
Did you upgrade from an older version?
Clearly something is not working properly and I suspect the incompatibility between This is pdfTeXk... and ---! cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex is the source of all trouble here.
pdfetex with TeXLIve 2007, NO!
Can you tell us the LOCATION of cont-en.fmt? Probably there are left
overs in
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/*.fmt
Delete all of them, then call dpkg-reconfigure context
Best wishes
Norbert
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