On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, John R. Culleton wrote:

On Thursday 22 June 2006 09:37 pm, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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Hi John, Others will be able to tell you better on how to upgrade on Linux (I myself use windows) but

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standard /usr/share/texmf tree. No joy. I get messages telling me to use the texmfstart command instead. This is as I recall a Windows thingie.

you need texmfstart on linux also. Does everything work fine if you use texmfstart?

Not yet. I am unsure what texmfstart is supposed to do. It is a Ruby script. Does it replace texexec or does it manage texexec?

texmfstart is a ruby script which manages texexec and other context script. Basically, instead of calling any script directly, call it using texmfstart. So, texexec filename becomes texmfstart texexec filename texutil becomes texmfstart texutil (though most of the functionality has been replaced by ctxtools) and so on. texmfstart makes sure that the script at the right path is called and also speeds up things a little when calling different utilities. It also provides some useful things like ifchanged and iftoughed. There is a texmfstart manual (bit out of date). Simply typing texmfstart on the shell lists the available switches. Aditya

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, Hans Hagen wrote:

Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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utilities. It also provides some useful things like ifchanged and iftoughed. There is a texmfstart manual (bit out of date). Simply

the source is updated, but not yet the pdf -)

Had a look at the updated manual and learnt about some features of texmfstart that I did not know. The front page is a nice example of \sometxt. Aditya

On Friday 23 June 2006 12:34 pm, Peter Münster wrote:

On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, John R. Culleton wrote:

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So next I tried linux binaries only. Still no joy.

Hello John, you could try the tetex-rpm from http://pmrb.free.fr/work/OS/ConTeXt/tetex/ It has the latest ConTeXt (also latest pdfTeX and MetaPost) and a command "updateConTeXt.sh" to easily update to the most recent ConTeXt. Cheers, Peter Now that is in interesting download. I see the following files and instructions:

tetex-3.0-3.i586.rpm-1 20-Jun-2006 17:54 66.8M [ ] tetex-3.0-3.i586.rpm-2 20-Jun-2006 17:56 41.8M [SND] tetex-3.0-3.nosrc.rpm 20-Jun-2006 17:56 11k [ ] tetex-3.0-3.src.rpm-1 20-Jun-2006 17:58 66.8M [ ] tetex-3.0-3.src.rpm-2 20-Jun-2006 18:01 62.0M [SND] tetex-3.0-4.nosrc.rpm 21-Jun-2006 21:35 11k To get the package tetex-3.0-3.i586.rpm, you need to do cat tetex-3.0-3.i586.rpm-1 tetex-3.0-3.i586.rpm-2 >tetex-3.0-3.i586.rpm To get the package tetex-3.0-3.src.rpm, you need to do cat tetex-3.0-3.src.rpm-1 tetex-3.0-3.src.rpm-2 >tetex-3.0-3.src.rpm Both packages can be build from tetex-3.0-3.nosrc.rpm Peter ------------------------------------------------ OK if I catenate the two 586 files, I get one rpm. Presumably I can just unpack the rpm and go. Or do I need to do something with one of the two nosrc RPMs? And why are there two nosrc RPMs? I'm a tarball guy myself, although Slack has an RPM command too. Anyhow the first two are downloading right now. Stay tuned. Advice welcome. -- John Culleton Books with answers to marketing and publishing questions: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book coaches, consultants and packagers: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf

On Fri, 23 Jun 2006, John R. Culleton wrote:

Well I downloaded the two files, catenated them into one called tetex.rpm, and then tried to unpack the result with rpm -i tetex.rpm I got a fistful of spurious error messages. So I missed something somewhere. Any hints?

Hello John, the binary package is build on SuSE-10.1 and I don't know the particularities of Slackware. What are the error messages? Perhaps problems with dependencies or conflicts. Anyway: if you want rpm to behave like tar, then "rpm -i --nodeps --force" should to it. My favourite way to get teTeX running: rpm -i http://pmrb.free.fr/work/OS/ConTeXt/tetex/tetex-3.0-X.nosrc.rpm rpmbuild -bb --force /usr/src/packages/SPECS/tetex.spec rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/packages/SPECS/tetex.spec rpm -Uvh /usr/src/packages/RPMS/YYY/tetex-3.0-X.YYY.rpm In fact, during the build process, I execute just the instructions on http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation (and a bit more). Perhaps, I'm not allowed to distribute the big binary package, so I'll probably remove it soon. Everything should work fine with the nosrc-package. If not, your feedback is welcome. Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/