From: Magnus Lie Hetland <magnus@hetland.org>
Subject: Installation blues
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 00:49:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020316004928.A16798@idi.ntnu.no> (raw)
Hi!
I think ConTeXt looks like a great package, and I've thought so for
quite some time -- but I haven't been able to install it :I
I tried a while back to install it with MiKTeX, but gave up after a
while. I recently tried again, but after getting things in place (not
an easy thing), I got an error message from pdetex because it didn't
understand an option supplied by texexec. Oh, well, I thought, and put
it on the back-burner again.
Suddenly I remembered a phrase from the installation manual: "When you
are using teTeX or derived distributions, you can usually stick to the
regular updates [...]". After investigated, I realised that this meant
that ConTeXt was included in teTeX -- and that fpTeX was a Windows
port. Yay!
The installation of fpTeX went without any problems (really a great
distribution), but using ConTeXt still wasn't as easy as I would like.
(I still haven't been able to make it work.) First of all, the
texexec.exe included (which is basically runperl.exe, I guess) doesn't
accept spaces in the directory name, and since the default
installation location is in "C:\Program Files\..." that is definitely
a problem. I moved it (and texexec.pl) somewhere else, as well as
copying texexec.rme to a texexec.ini in the same location (why isn't
this done by default?).
Now I am able to run texexec, but for some reason I get an error from
pdfeTeX... It can't find my tex files... Even when I run it without
texexec on a file in the current directory (e.g. test.tex) I get the
error message
! I can't find file `test.tex'.
What could be the problem now?
(If this question belongs on the pdftex list instead, or perhaps even
a separate fpTeX list, I apologise.)
--
Magnus Lie Hetland The Anygui Project
http://hetland.org http://anygui.org
next reply other threads:[~2002-03-15 23:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-15 23:49 Magnus Lie Hetland [this message]
2002-03-16 0:07 ` Frans Goddijn
2002-03-16 1:10 ` Magnus Lie Hetland
2002-03-16 4:26 ` Frans Goddijn
2002-03-17 18:54 ` Magnus Lie Hetland
2002-03-17 20:02 ` Frans Goddijn
2002-03-17 20:07 ` Magnus Lie Hetland
2002-03-17 21:01 ` Frans Goddijn
2002-03-17 0:51 ` Fabrice Popineau
2002-03-17 10:28 ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-03-17 11:55 ` Daniel Pittman
2002-03-17 13:24 ` Re[4]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-03-17 18:52 ` Magnus Lie Hetland
2002-03-17 21:36 ` Fabrice Popineau
2002-03-17 11:42 ` Hans Hagen
2002-03-19 18:24 ` Frans Goddijn
2002-03-20 8:55 ` Hans Hagen
2002-03-19 18:51 ` Frans Goddijn
2002-03-16 8:35 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-03-19 18:58 Frans Goddijn
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