From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/12453 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ed L Cashin Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: texexec Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:01:53 -0400 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20030612110152.A9798@atlas.cs.uga.edu> References: <200306121518.01026.Raimund.Kohl@freenet.de> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1055429936 6939 80.91.224.249 (12 Jun 2003 14:58:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2003 14:58:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Thu Jun 12 16:58:46 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 19QTWy-0001kk-00 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:58:24 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60A0C10B1C; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 17:00:57 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from ajax.cs.uga.edu (ajax.cs.uga.edu [128.192.251.3]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF3F410AB6 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 16:56:35 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from atlas.cs.uga.edu (atlas [128.192.251.4]) by ajax.cs.uga.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA23628 for ; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 10:56:33 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from cashin@localhost) by atlas.cs.uga.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA10033 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 12 Jun 2003 11:01:53 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200306121518.01026.Raimund.Kohl@freenet.de>; from Raimund.Kohl@freenet.de on Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:18:01PM +0200 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:12453 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:12453 On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 03:18:01PM +0200, Raimund Kohl wrote: > Hello there, > > I love working with ConTeXt, and never had to think about it much since SuSE > makes it realy easy ... but now I switched to Debian, and all of a sudden > have to face some trouble :-)) > > I run Debian Woody 3.01r and if I call I've been a debian woody user for a long time, now, and the conclusion I eventually came to was this: * debian's strict adherence to directory structure conventions has made the tetex package difficult to maintain, since it's split into many parts, spread all over the filesystem. (This is really just an inference of mine.) * context has never worked for me in debian, and submitting a bug report looks hopeless, given the long length of the bug list. I haven't checked in a long time, though. * I wasn't able to use the "equivs" package to get the debian packaging system to accept my own tetex installation, so I could not install, e.g., the docbook-xsl-st package. * finally, I settled on this: install the debian tetex packages but don't use them directly. Also install teTeX from source in /opt, and set my PATH so that when I say texexec I get the real tetex and not debian's broken tetex. Luckily, the price of disk space continues to drop. ;) -- --Ed L Cashin | PGP public key: ecashin@uga.edu | http://noserose.net/e/pgp/