On Dec 23, 2007 4:47 AM, Joel C. Salomon wrote: > On Dec 21, 2007 9:17 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > > Create $HOME/texmf. Download justtex.zip, and cont-tmf.zip, cont-fnt.zip > > from pragma's website, and unzip them inside $HOME/texmf. Download the > > font files from TeX Gyre and unzip then in $HOME/texmf. > > Do I need to set the TEXMFHOME environment variable?
It depends on the installation. But TEXMFHOME is usually already set in texmf.cnf. > Also: will downloading linuxtex.zip to the same place give me > up-to-date luatex, or will it just mess up my installation? linuxtex.zip at pragma is from August, so you won't get the latest luatex with it. linuxtex at http://minimals.contextgarden.net/pragma/ has the latest luatex beta (+ reasonably latest other binaries and latest LM, TeX Gyre, ...), but might differ from the one at pragma. (I need feedback.) > > Remake the formats, move the stubs and few programs to the path, and you > > are done. > > Is there a command to remake the pdftex and xetex formats together? Not at the moment. texexec -- make --all texexec -- make --all --xtx texexec -- make --all --lua > Rather than moving programs, might it be easier to add > ~/texmf/<whatever>/bin to the PATH? That's what setuptex in minimals does. Yes, if you're updating an exesting distribution, it might be easier and cleaner to add a variable to path than to overwrite the old binaries. > > The only drawback of this is that you have to update manually. ctxtools > > --updatecontext unzip the file in TEXMFLOCAL, and not TEXMFHOME, so it > > does not work with this setup. > > Hmm... will the rsync update work, or do I need to download the zips? Of course it works. You have two options: a) rsync -flags rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/pragma/linux/ [your-favorite location] will give you the almost-latest binaries in one rsync run (there is also "justtex" for the common files). b) wget http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/linux/first-setup.sh or (same file): rsync -flags rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/linux/first-setup.sh and then run that file to get the whole distribution at the desired location. (experimental - someone needs to write support for local configuration) flags may be -av or whatever else seems more appropriate. Also, if you already have a working TeX distribution, you can write a few rsync calls yourself. At http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/ (= rsync://minimals.contextgarden.net/minimals/current/) you have: - current ConTeXt - almost-latest binaries - fonts any you can combine the stuff from there in some arbitrary way. Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
