Re: [NTG-context] linux installations

2005-12-13 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: This last step gave and still gives me some headaches (my last attempt was with Opensuse 10.1 alpha 4), and that's where I ask for some elucidation: texexec does not rely on kpsewhich to locate the directory where it dumps the texexec useses kpse but your

Re: [NTG-context] linux installations

2005-12-13 Thread Taco Hoekwater
Hi Thomas, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: Dear all (and especially the linux heads...), I have been playing with my linux partition lately and looking at the linux installation section in the wiki. I see there are two approaches: - take the minimal linux distribution that Hans prepares, - start

Re: [NTG-context] linux installations

2005-12-13 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
Taco, Hans, thanks for your reactions. And I see that Taco speaks from (bad) experience. I have always fiddled around and tried to make ConTeXt work in the linux distros i have tried so far (since I'm on ppc, there were four of them: gentoo, fedora, ubuntu, suse), but have never made any

Re: [NTG-context] linux installations

2005-12-13 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: OK, will RTFM. One final thought: I remember reading an article (by Siep? in MAPS?) that having more than one texmf.cnf wasn't too difficult. Would that be an option I should try? Having one which just lets all the defaults provided by the distribution and one (set