Re: [NTG-context] DEB of Context 2008-01-28 anybody?
Joel C. Salomon wrote: On Feb 6, 2008 11:35 AM, Johannes Graumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a *.deb release for the current context version, or what are the plans for it? Norbert Preining is on vacation, so I'm guessing no. The most recent version he's got on his site (http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/context/) is 2008.01.02. That's unfortunate (for me - not for him ;0) ... I'm hesitant to go with a distribution independent context install ... Do you absolutely, positively need the most recent version, or did you want to test it? I do need the new version which is supposed to support zip-file reading in XML mode ... Joh ___ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] DEB of Context 2008-01-28 anybody?
On Feb 9, 2008 12:48 PM, Johannes Graumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joel C. Salomon wrote: On Feb 6, 2008 11:35 AM, Johannes Graumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a *.deb release for the current context version, or what are the plans for it? Norbert Preining is on vacation, so I'm guessing no. The most recent version he's got on his site (http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/context/) is 2008.01.02. That's unfortunate (for me - not for him ;0) ... I'm hesitant to go with a distribution independent context install ... Do you absolutely, positively need the most recent version, or did you want to test it? I do need the new version which is supposed to support zip-file reading in XML mode ... It supports reading from zip files (nice feature ;-) but what is wrong with ConTeXt's own function to update the system. ctxtools --updatecontent did everything for you Wolfgang ___ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] DEB of Context 2008-01-28 anybody?
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: ctxtools --updatecontent Thanks for the hint, but that doesn't seem to work ... # ctxtools --updatecontext 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 I do not understand enough of the ctxtools.rb script to figure out what might be going on in the debian case ... Joh ___ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] DEB of Context 2008-01-28 anybody?
On Feb 9, 2008 4:09 PM, Johannes Graumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: ctxtools --updatecontent Thanks for the hint, but that doesn't seem to work ... # ctxtools --updatecontext 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 I do not understand enough of the ctxtools.rb script to figure out what might be going on in the debian case ... I have no idea about TeX installation on Linux but you could try to download the zip from Hans side and unzip it in your local TeX directory. Wolfgang ___ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] DEB of Context 2008-01-28 anybody?
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Feb 9, 2008 4:09 PM, Johannes Graumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: ctxtools --updatecontent Thanks for the hint, but that doesn't seem to work ... # ctxtools --updatecontext 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 I do not understand enough of the ctxtools.rb script to figure out what might be going on in the debian case ... I have no idea about TeX installation on Linux but you could try to download the zip from Hans side and unzip it in your local TeX directory. I had local installs before. It's exactly what I want to prevent and ask for a Deb for ... Joh ___ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] DEB of Context 2008-01-28 anybody?
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Johannes Graumann wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: ctxtools --updatecontent Thanks for the hint, but that doesn't seem to work ... # ctxtools --updatecontext 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 I do not understand enough of the ctxtools.rb script to figure out what might be going on in the debian case ... You need to run sudo ctxtools --updatecontext but this will add content to your $TEXMFLOCAL (and not $TEXMFMAIN) so you will get two trees. Aditya ___ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] DEB of Context 2008-01-28 anybody?
Aditya Mahajan wrote: # ctxtools --updatecontext 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 I do not understand enough of the ctxtools.rb script to figure out what might be going on in the debian case ... You need to run sudo ctxtools --updatecontext The attempt documented above was run as root. So that's not it. Problem is, I suppose that the command assumes a local pre-existing tree, which I don't have. Joh ___ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] DEB of Context 2008-01-28 anybody?
Wolfgang Schuster wrote: On Feb 9, 2008 4:09 PM, Johannes Graumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wolfgang Schuster wrote: ctxtools --updatecontent Thanks for the hint, but that doesn't seem to work ... # ctxtools --updatecontext 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 I do not understand enough of the ctxtools.rb script to figure out what might be going on in the debian case ... Well, well ... I've given up my resistance, deinstalled the debian packages and got http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-linux-64.zip. I extracted it, run 'first-setup.sh' and 'tex/setuptex' from it, as well as added '~/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin' to my path. Problem is: the error remains the same as above: #ctxtools --updatecontext CtxTools | updating /home/balin/context/tex/texmf-context:/home/balin/context/tex/texmf CtxTools | unable to change to /home/balin/context/tex/texmf-context:/home/balin/context/tex/texmf What is it that I'm doing wrong? Joh ___ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] DEB of Context 2008-01-28 anybody?
On Feb 9, 2008 8:44 PM, Johannes Graumann wrote: Well, well ... I've given up my resistance, deinstalled the debian packages and got http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-linux-64.zip. I extracted it, run 'first-setup.sh' and 'tex/setuptex' from it, as well as added '~/context/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin' to my path. Problem is: the error remains the same as above: #ctxtools --updatecontext CtxTools | updating /home/balin/context/tex/texmf-context:/home/balin/context/tex/texmf CtxTools | unable to change to /home/balin/context/tex/texmf-context:/home/balin/context/tex/texmf What is it that I'm doing wrong? The reported error is not your fault (might be a did-not-consider-all-the-border-cases-bug in ctxtools), but if you have used the minimals from the garden, you already have the latest version of ConTeXt and there's no need to update it. The minimals are created exactly for that reason - to be able to update with rsync instead of having to download everything when only a few lines change. (A command-line for updating will be provided once things stabilize.) The only problem is that I don't have the luaTeX binary for linux-64 yet (usually it's Taco the one who submits it, but you may as well checkout svn://scm.foundry.supelec.fr/svn/luatex, run the build script and send me the binary). Does the rest (apart from update) work as expected? 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
Re: [NTG-context] DEB of Context 2008-01-28 anybody?
Mojca Miklavec wrote: The reported error is not your fault (might be a did-not-consider-all-the-border-cases-bug in ctxtools), but if you have used the minimals from the garden, you already have the latest version of ConTeXt and there's no need to update it. The minimals are created exactly for that reason - to be able to update with rsync instead of having to download everything when only a few lines change. (A command-line for updating will be provided once things stabilize.) Thanks for the heads up ... The only problem is that I don't have the luaTeX binary for linux-64 yet (usually it's Taco the one who submits it, but you may as well checkout svn://scm.foundry.supelec.fr/svn/luatex, run the build script and send me the binary). Let's see whether I have to go there ... Does the rest (apart from update) work as expected? No, that's what I am fretting about. Hans (and subsequently Wolfgang) stated that zip processing with this newest version should also work from within XML-mode of Context, something I'm very anxious to have for this pet project of mine of mapping ooffice xml into Context ... Does this depend on the newest luatex version? Joh ___ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___
