Re: Linux upgrade

["John R. Culleton" <john@wexfordpress.com>]

On Thursday 22 June 2006 09:37 pm, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> Hi John,
>   Others will be able to tell you better on how to upgrade on Linux (I
> myself use windows) but
>
> > standard /usr/share/texmf tree. No joy. I get messages telling me to use
> > the texmfstart command instead. This is as I recall a Windows thingie.
>
> you need texmfstart on linux also. Does everything work fine if you
> use texmfstart?
>
> Aditya
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Not yet. I am unsure what texmfstart is supposed to do. It is a
Ruby script. Does it replace texexec or does it manage texexec? 

Anyhow back to the starting line. I have reinstalled the version
of tetex that comes with Slackware 10.2 so at least I am
operational. I have in addition downloaded the iso's for
slackware-current. I tried upgrading just the TeX part of
Slackware but there are too many differences in libraries between
Slack 10.2 and Slack current. 

For my next step I will install Slack-current on a spare
partition. Then I will test Context there and note the version.
If it is fairly recent then I will proceed using that partition.
If not, then I may experiment with the many and various
suggestions for upgrading.  

My thanks to all who replied. I am hanging in there. Someday I
will get the upgrade going, but probably not today. 
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John Culleton
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