Re: [NTG-context] Installation Problem
At 09:52 AM 5/25/2006, gnwiii@gmail.com wrote:
When you run ". setuptex
" you should end up with TEXFORMATS='$TEXMFOS/web2c/{$engine,}'
Ouch! I got bit by something left over from yesterdays failed attempt. Fixing that, everything is working. In Summary: How I installed Context in /usr/local on Redhat EL WS v4 using BASH: Verify that the native RedHat version of tetex is not installed on your system; it is not compatible with Contex: rpm -q tetex rpm -q tetex-afm rpm -q tetex-doc rpm -q tetex-dvilj rpm -q tetex-dvips rpm -q tetex-fonts rpm -q tetex-latex rpm -q tetex-xdvi If any of these packages are installed use rpm -e package-name to erase them. download http://www.pragma-ade.nl/context/install/justtex.zip download http://www.pragma-ade.nl/context/install/linuxtex.zip move both files to /usr/local cd /usr/local unzip justtex.zip unzip linuxtex.zip cd tex chmod +x setuptex (may not be necessary) ./setuptex /usr/local/tex (may want to add to .bash_profile or save the script as /etc/profile.d/setuptex.sh and hard coding the value of TEXROOT in the script.) mkdir $VARTEXMF cd texmf download http://www.pragma-ade.nl/context/current/cont-tmf.zip mv cont-tmp.zip to the current directory ($TEXROOT/texmf) unzip -o cont-tmf.zip cd $TEXMFOS/bin chmod +x * chmod -x xpdfsuite.zip cd $TEXROOT texexec --make en de nl texexec --make metafun George, taco, thank you for the help. Neal
On 5/25/06, Neal Lester
How I installed Context in /usr/local on Redhat EL WS v4 using BASH:
Verify that the native RedHat version of tetex is not installed on your system; it is not compatible with Contex:
Actually, it is possible to have both without resorting to virtualizaton, and tetex is required by other packages (to build documentation). TeX Live and the minimal ConTeXt you installed are both structured so all the files are under a single top-level directory (but, because some installs may put the files on a read-only filesystem, some generated files may end up under the user's home directory). For TeX Live all you have to do is make sure the bin/<arch> directory is before /usr/bin in the PATH, while the minimal ConTeXt uses the variables set by "setuptex". I use the environment modules package to switch between distros (e.g., Red Hat's teTeX when building packages from .src.rpm's, TeX Live for my documents, and one or more "test" distributions).
George, taco, thank you for the help.
You are very welcome. Not everyone is as persistent or willing to
provide adequate detail so they can be helped.
I'm sure that there are dozens of people who have encountered the
"unzip -a" problem in mktexlsr and either got around it without
reporting the problem or just gave up on ConTeXt.
--
George N. White III
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