Re: Context-minimal installation problem.

["Thomas A. Schmitz" <thomas.schmitz@uni-bonn.de>]

On Aug 18, 2009, at 6:15 PM, John Culleton wrote:

> Tried to install context minimals including the steps
> mktexlsr
> texexec --make --all
> No errors at this point.  But when I tried to run pdftex
> I get the error message
> I can't find the format file `pdftex.fmt!'
>
> That file is not anywhere in my personal directory. It is however in
> my bigger texlive 2008 installation.
> The set command shows:
> TEXMFCACHE=/home/safer/context/tex/texmf-cache
> TEXMFOS=/home/safer/context/tex/texmf-linux
> TEXROOT=/home/safer/context/tex
> so that part is OK.
>
> Any hints?

You are using ConTeXt minimals. You are using texexec to generate the  
ConTeXt formats (cont-en.fmt etc.). Why would you expect a format file  
for pure pdftex to be produced?

Thomas
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