Hi, after acquiring a Thinkpad X61 I have takon on the ordeal of learning to use Windows Vista. I have turned off User Account Control and installed cygwin. In order to install context I tried several ways without success:
the ContextMinimalInstaller.exe failed by silently not downloading any files the minimals installer failed with rsync complaining when it was unable to create several directories. first-setup.bat ran without error if I manually created those directories but turned out not to have populated the file system when done In the end I unzipped justtex.zip and mswintex.zip and manually updated relevant parts of that tree with rsync from rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals MkII seems to work after this but when I run luatools --generate luatools --ini --compile --verbose cont-en I get the output below which looks like a lua error. luatex version is snapshot-0.22.0-2008021623. I do not know enough about lua to track this error down. I am hoping someone knows what to do. Perhaps there is even someone who can tell me an easier way to install context on vista. Johan LuaTools | version 1.1.1 - 2006+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT LuaTools | loading configuration for c:/tex/texmf-local/web2c from C:/Users/joha ns/AppData/Local/Temp/luatex-cache/context/2f0baa67609fede774cad1816bc161c0/tree s/79b9a157cfe9c83efa99199d2bcebd4f LuaTools | locating list of c:/tex/texmf-mswin LuaTools | locating list of c:/tex/texmf-project LuaTools | locating list of c:/tex/texmf-fonts LuaTools | locating list of c:/tex/texmf-local LuaTools | locating list of c:/tex/texmf-extra LuaTools | locating list of c:/tex/texmf LuaTools | loading files for c:/tex/texmf-mswin from C:/Users/johans/AppData/Loc al/Temp/luatex-cache/context/2f0baa67609fede774cad1816bc161c0/trees/39e55a4309bf e2ea9f639d421936eee1 LuaTools | loading files for c:/tex/texmf-fonts from C:/Users/johans/AppData/Loc al/Temp/luatex-cache/context/2f0baa67609fede774cad1816bc161c0/trees/83bb976cee5f 5053375aec6fae7ab80c LuaTools | loading files for c:/tex/texmf-local from C:/Users/johans/AppData/Loc al/Temp/luatex-cache/context/2f0baa67609fede774cad1816bc161c0/trees/a6e65cc51848 d6322c812f7170ffc63f LuaTools | loading files for c:/tex/texmf-extra from C:/Users/johans/AppData/Loc al/Temp/luatex-cache/context/2f0baa67609fede774cad1816bc161c0/trees/5def5151ca91 743ee0b11f69c81dbcc6 LuaTools | loading files for c:/tex/texmf from C:/Users/johans/AppData/Local/Tem p/luatex-cache/context/2f0baa67609fede774cad1816bc161c0/trees/cc606a690f61463c3d 016cc2fdb6859f LuaTools | creating initialization file cont-en LuaTools | using library path : c:/tex/texmf-local/tex/context/base LuaTools | using lua libraries: l-string.lua l-table.lua l-boolean.lua l-number. lua l-unicode.lua l-md5.lua l-os.lua l-io.lua l-file.lua l-dir.lua l-utils.lua l -tex.lua luat-lib.lua luat-inp.lua luat-tmp.lua luat-zip.lua luat-tex.lua LuaTools | using compiled initialization file cont-en.luc LuaTools | using lua initialization file cont-en.luc LuaTools | running command: luatex --ini --lua="cont-en.luc" "c:/tex/texmf-local /tex/context/base/cont-en.tex" \dump ?:0: attempt to call field '?' (a nil value) LuaTools | LuaTools | runtime: 0.2 seconds -- Johan Sandblom, MD PhD m +46735521477 Sweden "What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite" - Bertrand Russell ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
