I tried grabbing the latest justtex.zip and linuxtex.zip from http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm and texexec --make --all is dying on: ------- assuming engine : mpost This is MetaPost, Version 0.901 (Web2C 7.5.5) (INIMP) (/home/sjansen/Downloads/test/tex/texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx) (/home/sjansen/Downloads/test/tex/texmf-local/metapost/context/base/metafun.mp ! I can't find file `plain.mp'. l.27 input plain.mp ; % John Hobby's file Please type another input file name: ------- I'm basically doing the following. I'm pretty sure it has worked in the past. Is it not correct? mkdir ­p $TEXDIR unzip justtex.zip ­d $TEXDIR unzip linuxtex.zip ­d $TEXDIR chmod a+x $TEXDIR/tex/texmf­linux/bin/* source $TEXDIR/tex/setuptex $TEXDIR/tex cd /tmp ; texexec ­­make ­­all -- Stuart Jansen Guru Labs, L.C.