On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Alan Stone
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 Manager (to test
> whether it worked).
>
> Now trying to update ConTeXt with
>
> ctxtools --updatecontext
>
> which gives
>
> CtxTools | updating
> /etc/texmf:/var/lib/texmf:/usr/share/texmf:/usr/share/texmf-texlive
> CtxTools | unable to change to
> /etc/texmf:/var/lib/texmf:/usr/share/texmf:/usr/share/texmf-texlive
>
> whether I'm in root or not !???
>
> What's the corresponding command for XeTeX ? ( tried --updatexetex which
> failed )

You cannot update the binaries that way (you are not supposed to :).

On your own risk, you may update the binaries from minimals
    rsync -av \
    rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/bin/xetex/linux/bin/ \
    /path/to/bin/with/xetex

Mojca
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