From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/11225 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Maarten Sneep Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Problems recompiling LaTeX2ConTeXt.tex Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:37:56 +0100 Organization: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <03030610375602.07255@mondriaan> References: <20030305181640.11503.qmail@web10706.mail.yahoo.com> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1046943602 13972 80.91.224.249 (6 Mar 2003 09:40:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 09:40:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Thu Mar 06 10:39:59 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18qrr5-0003cc-00 for ; Thu, 06 Mar 2003 10:39:59 +0100 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 690C410B3E; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:40:29 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from nat.vu.nl (hardy.nat.vu.nl [130.37.32.3]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD45E10AE8 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:38:14 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from mondriaan (dyn34-207 [130.37.34.207]) by nat.vu.nl (8.10.2+Sun/8.10.2) with SMTP id h269cBN24900 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:38:11 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.1.99] In-Reply-To: <20030305181640.11503.qmail@web10706.mail.yahoo.com> Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:11225 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:11225 On Wednesday 05 March 2003 19:16, you wrote: > --- Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote: > > On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:45:24 -0800 (PST) > > "James J. Ramsey" > > > I'm running Red Hat 8.0, with > > > teTeX-1.0.7. > > > > i would prefer an update at least to TEXLive7 > > and the current ConTeXt > > Easier said than done on most Linux distros. teTeX is > "standard equipment" on many of them, and often a > dependency. Oh no, it's easy, I replaced it on SuSE. Here are the steps: Forget about rpm, just pretend tht everything is there. Make sure you are a priviledged user. 1) remove /usr/share/texmf (or wherever RetHat puts it). 2) install TeXLive 7 (or wait till 8 comes out) in /usr/share/TeX 3) find out where the executable lives (which tex) 4) replace all symlinks in that directory with symlinks to the binaries of TeXLive. 5) add a symlink to you new main texmf tree in /usr/share/texmf The other packages should see no difference. A package manager is fine, but if you want to have an advanced tex (current tex), you should not rely on RedHat or SuSe. Both seem to downgrade tex more and more, and favour OpenOffice, since that is what point-and-click users expect. I get the same rash from either OpenOffice or MS Office, so I guess this doesn't really apply to the part of the demographics subscribed to this list. Cheers (sorry for the rant) Maarten