Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-10-02 Thread gnwiii
On 10/1/06, Mojca Miklavec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/29/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Steve Peter wrote: There is now a MikTeX package manager for Linux. And it is best not to use it since it ships a context that believes it is running on windows... ConTeXt should adjust to the

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-10-01 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On 9/29/06, Taco Hoekwater wrote: Steve Peter wrote: There is now a MikTeX package manager for Linux. And it is best not to use it since it ships a context that believes it is running on windows... But then it has to be fixed, not thrown away ... I bet that the main reason is one of the

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-09-30 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi, Looks like your update went fine excep that you have an old format file still on your disk: FatalError : Your format does not match the base files! Context source version used to generate cont-en.fmt: FormatVersion : 2006.07.14 12:08 Current (runtime) source version:

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-09-30 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
Search for the stale cont-en.fmt and delete it. Right -- most likely produced by fmtutil before you commented out the automatic regeneration of context formats. Same problem happens with other Unix installations, e.g. I got bit a few times on Debian and Ubuntu. Here's one way to find the

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-09-30 Thread Jeremy Johnson
On Saturday 30 September 2006 09:55, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote: Search for the stale cont-en.fmt and delete it. Right -- most likely produced by fmtutil before you commented out the automatic regeneration of context formats. Same problem happens with other Unix installations, e.g. I got bit a

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-09-30 Thread Sanjoy Mahajan
So I simply copied /root/.texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex/* /var/lib/texmf/web2c/ texexec new.tex seems to run OK now, without error. I'll investigate further. You run texexec as root, I'm guessing, so that the formats will be visible to all users. However, that means they go into root's

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-09-29 Thread John R. Culleton
On Friday 29 September 2006 09:45, Jeremy Johnson wrote: I'm having problems starting ConTeXt with texexec on my Gentoo system. I've installed ConTeXt using the MikTeX Package Manager: Miktex is for Windows, not Linux. Try another distro, such as TeX Live or the the minimal distro at the

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-09-29 Thread Steve Peter
On Sep 29, 2006, at 1:35 PM, John R. Culleton wrote: On Friday 29 September 2006 09:45, Jeremy Johnson wrote: I'm having problems starting ConTeXt with texexec on my Gentoo system. I've installed ConTeXt using the MikTeX Package Manager: Miktex is for Windows, not Linux. There is now a

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-09-29 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Steve Peter wrote: On Sep 29, 2006, at 1:35 PM, John R. Culleton wrote: On Friday 29 September 2006 09:45, Jeremy Johnson wrote: I'm having problems starting ConTeXt with texexec on my Gentoo system. I've installed ConTeXt using the MikTeX Package Manager: Miktex is for Windows, not Linux.

Re: [NTG-context] Problem with ConTeXt installation

2006-09-29 Thread Jeremy Johnson
And it is best not to use it since it ships a context that believes it is running on windows... Taco OK, I've uninstalled context: mpm --uninstall=context as well as all other context packages installed through mpm: for `f in mpm --list|grep context|grep ^i|tr -s [:space:]|cut -d ' ' -f 4`;