I just forgot to add: the situation with updates is a bit confusing at the moment, but that's not your fault. Hopefully it will improve soon.
Mojca On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Mojca Miklavec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Mehdi Omidali wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> I have followed any thread about updating context (on Texlive2008 on >> ubuntu) and no success yet. After running >> sudo ctxtools --updatecontext > > This command doesn't necessary do what you always desire: it puts > ConTeXt to texmf-local. This means that any further updates that you > might try to make with tlmgr (TeX Live manager) will be shielded by > your local copy. That's OK, but you need to be aware that you then > have two copies of ConTeXt on your computer, and the one in > texmf-local will be used. > > And there is something that might bite you with this as well. TeX Live > is currently configured so that luatools & mtxrun binaries are taken > from texmf-dist/scripts. If the rest of files comes from texmf-local, > you might end in troubles/incompatibilities between the two versions. > You probably need to fix symlinks of luatools and mtxrun manually. > >> and >> luatools --generate >> everything went smooth. But after >> >> texexec --make --luatex en >> >> I got the following >> >> Should I create the cache path /home/mehdi? [yes|no] [no] >> >> and after pressing Enter I got >> >> fatal error: there is no valid (writable) cache path defined > > You need to update LuaTeX binary as well. See > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV. But there are still > some issues. Namely, you need to fix symlinks of luatools and mtxrun > to point to the proper file. And you might need to remove files in > texmf-local that belong to ConTeXt as a result of "ctxtools > --updatecontext" (it's up to you which tree you want to use; I > overwrite files in texmf-dist with some care). > > 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
