On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 17:37, Robert Blackstone wrote: > Hi, > > When installing the current version of ConTeXt-minimals on my old > PowerMac G4 (OSX 10.4.11), on which the minimals have been installed, > and have worked, without any problems up till october last year, the > process stopped midway, because the file 'metafun' could not be > opened.
Where did you install the minimals? Can you try chown -R yourusername /path/to/installation ? > The last lines of the log are: > > "TeXExec | using tex engine xetex > TeXExec | using tex format path ./xetex > TeXExec | unable to make format due to lack of permissions > TeXExec | using mp engine mpost > TeXExec | using mps format path . > TeXExec | generating mps format metafun > This is MetaPost, version 1.504 (kpathsea version 6.0.0) > ! I can't open file `metafun'. > <*> metafun > > Please type another input file name: " > > Does anybody know what can be done about this? > (I even do not know how to abort the process other than quitting Terminal.) Ctrl-C (a couple of times), Ctrl-D, Ctrl-\, ... or killall (but I'm not experience enough in giving you further details). Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________