Taco Hoekwater Tue, 03 Aug 2010 19:33:39 +0200 Almost. You need this file http://minimals.metatex.org/current/misc/web2c/texmfcnf.lua and it should go into <texlive>/texmf/web2c/ or somewhere else where it can be found (any location where texmf.cnf will be found) and then it should work, I think. But I cannot test this, so be warned that it may not work. Best wishes, Taco This helps somewhat. It seems that the definitions TEXMFOS = "$SELFAUTODIR", TEXMFMAIN = "$SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf", TEXMFCONTEXT = "$SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-context", TEXMFLOCAL = "$SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-local", TEXMFFONTS = "$SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-fonts", TEXMFPROJECT = "$SELFAUTOPARENT/texmf-project", are not true for my case. How do I set these variables so that things will work correctly? Running "mtxrun --generate" spits this MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'SELFAUTOLOC' set to '/usr/bin' MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'SELFAUTODIR' set to '/usr' MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'SELFAUTOPARENT' set to '.' MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'TEXMFCNF' set to '' MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'TEXMF' set to '' MTXrun | resolvers: variable 'TEXOS' set to '/usr No wonder that cont-en is not found when I run mtxrun --compile cont-en. I would like "mtxrun --compile cont-en" to find the context distribution within TEXMFLOCAL = /usr/local/share/texmf. Here is the directory structure in /usr/local/share/texmf where I keep the context package. In addition under /usr/share/texmf-texlive are all fonts that are used by all things tex. ./ ./fonts ./fonts/cid ./fonts/afm ./fonts/fea ./fonts/map ./fonts/data ./fonts/type1 ./fonts/vf ./fonts/tfm ./fonts/pfm ./fonts/truetype ./fonts/enc ./fonts/misc ./doc ./doc/fonts ./doc/context ./doc/latex ./bibtex ./bibtex/bst ./ls-R ./metapost ./metapost/context ./context ./context/config ./context/data ./tex ./tex/context ./tex/generic ./tex/latex ./web2c ./web2c/context.cnf ./web2c/natural.tcx ./web2c/contextcnf.lua ./scripts ./scripts/context Thank you, Eythan