Context install from Texlive2016 mtxrun problem
Hello, After several years away from Context, I would like to start using it again and encounter the following problem: I am on a Fedora 25 system, 64bit machine and installed context from the rpm repositories via dnf. The repositories contain a Texlive 2016 version. I installed "texlive" and "texlive-context" from those repositories, and context works out of the box. The problem is with mtxrun: it seems unable to find the scripts. The scripts are installed in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/context/lua When I invoke "mtxrun --script" from any place, I get a "no script name given" without the expected list of available scripts wheni I invoke the same from the scripts directory, I get the list of available scripts as expected. When I invoke "mtxrun --script fonts --list --all" from any directory, I get "unknown script 'font.lua' or mtx-font.lua' the same comand from the directory where the scripts are located gives "mtx-fonts.lua:135: attempt to index global 'fonts' (a nil value)" Is this supposed to work out of the box, or do I still have to manually configure some details as in older texlive versions ? (could not find anything in the context wiki or maillist that helps me to solve this problem) Geert
On 02/28/2017 02:23 PM, Geert Dobbels wrote:
Hello,
After several years away from Context, I would like to start using it again and encounter the following problem:
I am on a Fedora 25 system, 64bit machine and installed context from the rpm repositories via dnf. The repositories contain a Texlive 2016 version.
I installed "texlive" and "texlive-context" from those repositories, and context works out of the box.
Hi Geert, I’m on Fedora 25, but my laptop is old (so, mine is a 32bit machine). When I came back to ConTeXt, I installed it from TeX Live. But after some use (and the kind advice from different people in this list), I decided to install the ConTeXt Suite. It is as simple as: time (cd && mkdir temp-ctx-install && cd temp-ctx-install &&\ rsync -ptv rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/first-setup.sh . &&\ ./first-setup.sh --modules=all && cd &&\ source temp-ctx-install/tex/setuptex && mtxrunjit --generate) With a decent internet connection it only takes two minutes to download (the command "time" is there to measure things ;-)). Why do I write this? Because I had the same thoughts (“Installing a beta version? Crazy!”). And now I don’t have any other TeX distribution installed on my system ;-). Since the installation is portable, you may install it besides your TeX Live ConTeXt. Depending on your free space available, you may have different betas in the same computer. After all, they aren’t installed on the system. All you have to do is to invoke (before running ConTeXt): source /directory-where-context-suite-is-placed/tex/setuptex All paths will be loaded and everything will be fine. Using the current beta, you have latest implementations available and you avoid dealing with ancient bugs. BTW, "mtxrun --generate" might help you with the issue you reported. (Not tested, since I don’t want to install TeX Live :-).) Just in case it helps, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk
Pablo, Thanks for your reply, everything works fine now. I left texlive on my system since I need it for a couple of other things, but uninstalled the context modules. Geert On 28/02/17 17:34, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
On 02/28/2017 02:23 PM, Geert Dobbels wrote:
Hello,
After several years away from Context, I would like to start using it again and encounter the following problem:
I am on a Fedora 25 system, 64bit machine and installed context from the rpm repositories via dnf. The repositories contain a Texlive 2016 version.
I installed "texlive" and "texlive-context" from those repositories, and context works out of the box. Hi Geert,
I’m on Fedora 25, but my laptop is old (so, mine is a 32bit machine).
When I came back to ConTeXt, I installed it from TeX Live. But after some use (and the kind advice from different people in this list), I decided to install the ConTeXt Suite.
It is as simple as:
time (cd && mkdir temp-ctx-install && cd temp-ctx-install &&\ rsync -ptv rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/first-setup.sh . &&\ ./first-setup.sh --modules=all && cd &&\ source temp-ctx-install/tex/setuptex && mtxrunjit --generate)
With a decent internet connection it only takes two minutes to download (the command "time" is there to measure things ;-)).
Why do I write this? Because I had the same thoughts (“Installing a beta version? Crazy!”). And now I don’t have any other TeX distribution installed on my system ;-).
Since the installation is portable, you may install it besides your TeX Live ConTeXt. Depending on your free space available, you may have different betas in the same computer. After all, they aren’t installed on the system.
All you have to do is to invoke (before running ConTeXt):
source /directory-where-context-suite-is-placed/tex/setuptex
All paths will be loaded and everything will be fine.
Using the current beta, you have latest implementations available and you avoid dealing with ancient bugs.
BTW, "mtxrun --generate" might help you with the issue you reported. (Not tested, since I don’t want to install TeX Live :-).)
Just in case it helps,
Pablo
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