On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adit...@umich.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Aug 2010, Xan wrote: > >> I file a bug: >> >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/context/+bug/622253 >> >> Please, provide any comments you want. > > What you have reported there is not a bug. After installing ConTeXt, you > need to run (luatools --generate) as a normal user; only then mtx-contex.lua > will be found. The need to run "luatools --generate" is not sufficiently visible (it is in README.MarkIV). Any package that requires user configuration steps should have a mechanism to inform the user that such steps are required. I suspect the damage was already done by the time the OP tried "luatools --generate" , and was perhaps made worse by running the command from a root prompt. > In your case, running luatools --generate does not help, and that is the > bug. You are right, but with a system like context it is sometimes better to avoid stressing the tools by following standard procedures. The OP ended up with /etc/texmf/web2c/pdftex, which suggests that MkII and/or fmtutil tried to install formats under /etc/texmf/web2c. It may be too much to expect luatools to recover when things are not where they belong and files under $HOME are not owned by the user. -- George N. White III <aa...@chebucto.ns.ca> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
