Re: Installation

["Matthew Huggett" <mhuggett@telusplanet.net>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Roger Mason" <rmason@sparky2.esd.mun.ca>
To: "ConTeXt" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 1:28 AM
Subject: Installation

> Hello,
> 
> I am new to ConTeXt and am setting it up on a Linux (RH7.0) system with
> the teTeX distribution.  I downloaded cont-tmf.zip from the PRAGMA site
> and have followed along the instructions in minstall.pdf.  When I get to
> 
> texexec --make en nl
> 
> (invoked as root), I get:
> 
>  TeXExec 1.9 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2000
> 
>                  error : TeXFontsPath set to unknown path
> l:/tex/texmf;l:/tex/texmf-local;/
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-13d-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1) (INITEX)
> entering extended mode
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/config/cont-en.ini
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/context.tex
> ! I can't find file `syst-pln.tex'.
> l.34 \input syst-pln.tex 
>                          % stripped plain
> Please type another input file name: 
> ! Emergency stop.
> l.34 \input syst-pln.tex 
>                          % stripped plain
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on cont-en.log.
> fmtutil: `pdfetex -ini -efmt=cont-en -progname=context *cont-en.ini'
> failed.
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-13d-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1) (INITEX)
> entering extended mode
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/config/cont-nl.ini
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-nl.tex
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/context.tex
> ! I can't find file `syst-pln.tex'.
> l.34 \input syst-pln.tex 
>                          % stripped plain
> Please type another input file name: 
> ! Emergency stop.
> l.34 \input syst-pln.tex 
>                          % stripped plain
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on cont-nl.log.
> fmtutil: `pdfetex -ini -efmt=cont-nl -progname=context *cont-nl.ini'
> failed.
> 
>             executable : pdfetex
>              format(s) : en nl
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Roger Mason
> 
> 
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 From a previous mailing:
****************************************
Hi,

did you update your lsr?

'texconfig rehash'

should do the trick.

Andreas

On Sun, 2 Jun 2002, David Petrou wrote:

> Hi.  I'm a new ConTeXt user.  I'm installing over TeTeX.  I know that
> TeTeX already has ConTeXt support, but I want to use a newer ConTeXt
> than came with my TeTeX distribution.
>
> I'm following the directions in the ConTeXt installation manual.
>
> I unzipping the ConTeXt archive,  Then I made symlinks to all the .pl
> files, like:
>
>   ln -s texexec.pl texexec
>
> and made sure that all the links I made were in my search path.
>
> I ran `fmtutil --edit' and saw that everything looked ok.  But, when I
> run `fmtutil --all', I get:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-13d-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1) (INITEX)
> entering extended mode
> (/var/lib/texmf/tex/context/config/cont-cz.ini
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-cz.tex
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/context.tex
> ! I can't find file `syst-pln.tex'.
> l.34 \input syst-pln.tex
>                          % stripped plain
> Please type another input file name:
> ! Emergency stop.
> l.34 \input syst-pln.tex
>                          % stripped plain
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on cont-cz.log.
> fmtutil: `pdfetex -ini -efmt=cont-cz -progname=context *cont-cz.ini'
> failed.
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I do have this file, though:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> bash-2.04# pwd
> /usr/share/texmf
> bash-2.04# find . -name syst-pln.tex
> ./tex/context/base/syst-pln.tex
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Anyway, I pressed on added `map +context.map' to my pdftex.cfg file.
> Then I copied texexec.rme to texexec.ini and ensured that TeXShell was
> set to tetex.  Then I tried `texexec --make en de nl' and got:
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>  TeXExec 2.8 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2002
>
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-13d-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.1) (INITEX)
> entering extended mode
> (/var/lib/texmf/tex/context/config/cont-en.ini
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/context.tex
> ! I can't find file `syst-pln.tex'.
> l.34 \input syst-pln.tex