On Thursday 22 June 2006 09:37 pm, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > Hi John, > Others will be able to tell you better on how to upgrade on Linux (I > myself use windows) but > > > 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? > > Aditya > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
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? Anyhow back to the starting line. I have reinstalled the version of tetex that comes with Slackware 10.2 so at least I am operational. I have in addition downloaded the iso's for slackware-current. I tried upgrading just the TeX part of Slackware but there are too many differences in libraries between Slack 10.2 and Slack current. For my next step I will install Slack-current on a spare partition. Then I will test Context there and note the version. If it is fairly recent then I will proceed using that partition. If not, then I may experiment with the many and various suggestions for upgrading. My thanks to all who replied. I am hanging in there. Someday I will get the upgrade going, but probably not today. -- 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 _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list [email protected] http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
