http://lmtx.pragma-ade.nl/install-lmtx/texmf-context.zip is not versioned.
If the file changes later, linux distributions refuse to use the file. I wish ConTeXt and LuaMetaTex were versioned and provided `offline` build instructions. The vast majority of programs are versioned and can be built easily offline. Even if they were distributed as binary files, if they are versioned, I can still make linux packages out of them. ------- Original Message ------- On Monday, August 15th, 2022 at 9:56 PM, Max Chernoff <mse...@telus.net> wrote: > Okay, I'm seeing a few separate issues here. > > 1. Gentoo expects to compile everything from source. > > This isn't an option here since LuaMetaTeX doesn't have any source > available (yet). So for the time being, you'll need to use the provided > binaries. These support pretty much every architecture, so this > shouldn't really be a problem. > > 2. You want to install ConTeXt LMTX system-wide. > > This is doable with the standard Linux installer script. Just make sure > to run the script as root and install the files in /opt/context. This is > what I've done on my system, and it works quite well. > > $ ls -l $(type -p context) > lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 10 Jul 28 00:33 > /opt/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/context -> luametatex* > > > 3. You want to install ConTeXt without any network access. > > The easiest way to do this would be to install on a system with > internet, then just copy over the files. > > If you want to use the "original" installer files, it shouldn't be > impossible, but probably not too easy either. (All steps below are > untested) > > The platform-independent stuff is all in one big zip, located at: > > http://lmtx.pragma-ade.nl/install-lmtx/texmf-context.zip > > Unzip this file as "<context root>/tex/texmf-context/". > > > Then you also need to download all of the binaries. You will need to > download all of the paths listed in this file: > > http://lmtx.pragma-ade.nl/install-lmtx/tex/texmf-linux-64.tma > > All of those files need to be placed in "<context root>/tex/texmf-linux- > > 64/bin". > > Then to finish installing you'll need to run "mtxrun --generate" and > "context --make". There are probably a bunch of other steps that I'm > missing, but this should get you close. > > Again, probably easier to just use the regular installer. > > 4. ConTeXt is really picky about texmfcnf stuff. > > This is an issue that I've had too: > > https://github.com/latex3/l3build/issues/232 > > Pretty much any modification of anything texmfcnf-related with ConTeXt > will completely prevent it from running. There's a thread discussing the > problem (but with no real solutions) here: > > https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2020-September/046099.html > > And a Wiki page here: > > https://wiki.contextgarden.net/Custom_Configuration > > I agree that this texmfcnf stuff makes it really difficult to install or > use ConTeXt with any kind of custom paths. Does anyone know how to > properly configure a texmfcnf with custom paths? > > Hopefully this is of some help. > -- Max ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / https://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : https://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net archive : https://bitbucket.org/phg/context-mirror/commits/ wiki : https://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
