Hello ConTeXist.
I am trying to install a standalone ConTeXt on MacBook. I am doing
everything exactly as instructed on contextgarden.net, but the
installation will fail. It seems that the problem is with rsync, with
copying the installation script first-setup.sh into my Mac. Since I am a
Hi Jaroslav,
could you explain a bit more what you mean by "the installation will fail”?
What error message do you get at what stage?
You need to make sure that you have write permission to the installation
directory; anything inside your home directory should be safe.
Also, as a general
Hello Matthias.
Thank you for the quick response. During installation, no error occurs,
even seems that rsync copied without error message first-setup.sh to my
%HOME/context directory. When then I look into this directory, then
there is no file. Subsequently command sudo sh ./first-setup.sh
Here is what I do:
Tetrahedron:ConTeXt matthias$ mkdir ~/context
Tetrahedron:ConTeXt matthias$ cd ~/context
Tetrahedron:context matthias$ rsync -ptv
rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/first-setup.sh .
first-setup.sh
sent 38 bytes received 3636 bytes 1469.60 bytes/sec
total size is 3525
Hello Jaroslav,
Here is what I do on my Mac:
1) While in the Finder, create a folder named Context-standalone
2) Put the attached file « first-setup.sh » in the folder Context-standalone
3) Open Terminal and issue the command
cd [Path-to-the-folder-Context-standalone]
4) Then in
Hello.
Thanks to Otared and Matthias too for their solutions. Otared's method
is working, Mathias method unfortunaly not working. ConTeXt is already
installed on my MacBookAir. I dont know why, but It seems that for some
reason rsync does not download the first-setup.sh file into my
Hi Jaroslav,
On Mac, you can use TeXShop and your standalone Context very easily.
First create a specific « .engine » file for this and then in TeXShop use that
engine.
Here is what I have when I typeset a file in TeXShop using mkiv ConTeXt:
% begin file mkiv.engine
#!/bin/bash
export
Hello Otared.
Thanks for inspiring advice. Be sure that I will try everything setting
up so that I ConTeXt work as on my PC and Windows. After 25 years of
using Windows, I would never say that I will experiment with MacBook and
OS-X. At the moment, I am pleased that I cease to be dependent on
