richard.stephens@converteam.com wrote:

Gentlemen and Ladies,

I am using ConTeXt on a company Windows PC behind two firewalls with no possibility of accessing or changing the firewalls. I've tried to update using the minimals installation and rsync, but nothing gets through. What is the recommended method of updating to the latest ConTeXt when rsync is not an option?

The last time I tried, I downloaded cont-tmf.zip from http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm and unzipped the contents to overwrite everything in texmf-local. Is this still the best way?

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On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:23, richard.stephens@converteam.com wrote:

Gentlemen and Ladies,

I am using ConTeXt on a company Windows PC behind two firewalls with no possibility of accessing or changing the firewalls. I've tried to update using the minimals installation and rsync, but nothing gets through. What is the recommended method of updating to the latest ConTeXt when rsync is not an option?

The last time I tried, I downloaded cont-tmf.zip from http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm  and unzipped the contents to overwrite everything in texmf-local. Is this still the best way?

I have no time to explore myself for the next few months, but if anyone comes up with a solution, I can fix it (if anything should be fixed on server, but maybe fixing locally could be enough). There are some online tutorials about how to circumvent firewall problems using ssh tunelling. http://forums.exabytes.com/linux-control-panel-cpanel/102-using-rsync-throug... http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/firewall.html On the other hand, the installer could detect a problem of "firewall" or "network connection problem" and return some nicer error report instead of trying to run rsync even after the first attempt has faild. Mojca

On Thu, 28 May 2009, richard.stephens@converteam.com wrote:

I am using ConTeXt on a company Windows PC behind two firewalls with no possibility of accessing or changing the firewalls. I've tried to update using the minimals installation and rsync, but nothing gets through. What is the recommended method of updating to the latest ConTeXt when rsync is not an option?

Perhaps this could be an easy option: 1.) install on PC with direct internet connection (no firewall problems) 2.) put the context directory on a usb-stick 3.) copy from usb-stick to PC behind firewall If this is not possible, perhaps the firewall is open for http? Then someone else with a Windows PC could prepare for you an archive and put it on an http-server? Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/