Thanks for your extensive comments Aditya. It's (finally) *much* clearer
now.
Now you have two options: Either isolate minimal context from the one
provided by the distribution, or make them co-exist. Isolating them is
easy, the minimals even come with a script setuptex which does that. So,
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Alan Stone
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Hi,
I've have Ubuntu 8.04 running in a VirtualBox under WXP. No dual boot setup
necessary any more. How Cool ! Works like a charm - apart from a USB printer
problem.
Installed TeX, ConTeXt and XeTeX through the Package
At least ctxtools --updatecontext should work.
The /etc/texmf:/var/lib/texmf:/usr/share/texmf:/usr/share/texmf-texlive are
there.
Or am I (again) missing something ?
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Wolfgang Schuster
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On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Alan Stone
[EMAIL
I don't understand. Please explain...
(1) You cannot update the binaries that way (you are not supposed to :).
Why can't the binaries be updated that way (why aren't we supposed to) ?
(2) On your own risk, you may update the binaries from minimals
rsync -av \
The more I research, the less I understand...
From http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals :
--- quote ---
Updating
For now, the main recipe to update is to run first-setup again. A
command similar to
ctxtools --updatecontext might be provided in the future.
--- unquote
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Alan Stone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The more I research, the less I understand...
From http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals :
--- quote ---
Updating
For now, the main recipe to update is to run first-setup again. A
command similar to
Hi Wolfgang,
Hmmm... There's Mac too.
However, I don't give up so quickly. :O)
I find Linux rather cool. At the same time
finding Windows' desktop/window manager
more and more boring, considering the
personalisation capabilities of GNU/Linux'
desktops, etc...
Hence, for the time being, I'll
Thanks Mojca.
If you are lucky, it puts the files where you want them to be, but
since every installation works its own way, it's hard to predict where
to put them;
...
Of course you can. But if you happen to update TL package, your
additions will be destroyed. And you need to rebuild all
On Fri, 20 Jun 2008, Alan Stone wrote:
Thanks Mojca.
If you are lucky, it puts the files where you want them to be, but
since every installation works its own way, it's hard to predict where
to put them;
...
Of course you can. But if you happen to update TL package, your
additions will be
Thanks all for kindly posting your precious recommendations and tips.
(K)Ubuntu and PC-BSD Live CD's it will be... as an appetizer. :O)
For future reference for people considering giving it a go, here are some
useful links:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distribution
-
Wow... this is a good one:
Linux Distribution chooser: answer some questions and there you go...
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
Results were *very* close to your suggestions.
Alan
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 8:20 AM, Alan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Thanks all for kindly posting your
Alan Stone wrote:
Wow... this is a good one:
Linux Distribution chooser: answer some questions and there you go...
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
Results were *very* close to your suggestions.
That was fun! It actually proposed the distro I'm using (Mandriva).
Linux Distribution chooser: answer some questions and there you go...
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
Results were *very* close to your suggestions.
That was fun! It actually proposed the distro I'm using (Mandriva).
Even for me (I'm using ubuntu)
--
luigi
Dne sobota 14. junija 2008 je luigi scarso napisal(a):
Linux Distribution chooser: answer some questions and there you go...
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
Results were *very* close to your suggestions.
That was fun! It actually proposed the distro I'm using (Mandriva).
Nice. I
On Saturday 14 June 2008 03:40:58 am Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Alan Stone wrote:
Wow... this is a good one:
Linux Distribution chooser: answer some questions and there you
go... http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
Results were *very* close to your suggestions.
That was fun! It actually
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Alan Stone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
( Oops, pushed inadvertedly some key on my keyboard and the
message was away while in GMail - here's the sequel... )
Having heard Linux is, amongst other things, far more stable
I might be tempted to play with it and
Le vendredi 13 juin 2008 à 12:42 +0200, Alan Stone a écrit :
( Oops, pushed inadvertedly some key on my keyboard and the
message was away while in GMail - here's the sequel... )
Having heard Linux is, amongst other things, far more stable
I might be tempted to play with it and progressively
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Alan Stone
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
( Oops, pushed inadvertedly some key on my keyboard and the
message was away while in GMail - here's the sequel... )
Having heard Linux is, amongst other things, far more stable
I might be tempted to play with it and
2008/6/13 Michael Hallgren [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
As I presently don't know a thing about Linux, which distribution
do you recommend ?
Hello :)
Over the years, I've been using mainly FreeBSD. But recently I gave the
Ubuntu distribution a chance. It's a really nice, and easier to manage,
I had a poor experience with commercial design software on Windows (by
Serif, a company based out of the UK.) That pushed me to Linux.
I started with Debian woody and right away I had to fetch and compile
kernel modules from an Intel code base. I actually got Debian working
well under the 2.4
Charles P. Schaum [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[...]
I'm torn between a TeX packaged distro and independent construction
either via TeX Live itself or DIY'ing it from CTAN. OTOH it's nice not
to have to build your own texmf tree; but it can be done and I've done
it by following the specs.
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