Bob Reynolds wrote:

Hi,

I just updated my TeX (and ConTeXt) tree, based on the linuxtex.zip file at http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm, at /usr/local/share/tex from about the August version and after a few minor tweaks I've got it working. No other TeX stuff is installed on my Gentoo system. One big problem: all of a sudden, I need to run "source /usr/local/share/tex/setuptex" or else a command like "texmfstart texexec --color 'story.tex'" exits with an error message "the file 'texexec' is not found". This breaks the Kile program that I use to write and compile TeX files. Is there any way to get this or something similar that's not in a bash environment to just work?

It looks like this is a side-effect of a not-too-robust installation, may apparent by switching from the perl version of texexec to the ruby version. The simple and best solution is to add the "source setuptex" to one of your login scripts. Taco