On Oct 6, 2010, at 04:02 , R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar wrote: > On Tuesday 05 October 2010 11:15 PM, Florian Wobbe wrote: > >> I used to update TeXLive 2009 successfully with this method, however >> I ran into the same error when updating TeXLive 2010. As I did not >> succeed and could not figure out what caused the error I installed >> minimals without problems. I suggest you install minimals and point >> the environment variable OSFONTDIR to your TeXLive tree. This adds >> only about 200MiB to your disk which is rather neglectable compared >> to the 2.7GiB of a full TeXLive. > > I trust that minimals is what I was updating using with rsync and that it is > a cut-down version of the ConTeXt distribution that came with TeXLive 2010.
No, you clobbered your TeXLive distro with the current context beta. > Can I put minimals in $TEXMFHOME which is ~/texmf on my system? That seems to > be the place where I can keep stuff newer than TeXLive 2010 without conflict. > Can minimals function standalone, though, or will I run into mismatches with > TeXLive 2010 again? I wouldn't try and mix minimals with TeXLive. Let TeXLive and minimals live side by side and they don't hurt each other. Make sure you set your PATH environment and put context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin before the TeXLive binary path. This way the executables from minimals get preference over those from TeXLive and you'd still be able to run latex without changing your environment. > Also, should OSFONTDIR then point to /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/ or to > something else? You would want to point it at /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/fonts// so that mtxrun --script fonts --reload finds the fonts that come with your TeXLive. Mine looks like this: OSFONTDIR=/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-dist/fonts//:/Library/Fonts//:/System/Library/Fonts// Florian ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________
