From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/28794 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John R. Culleton" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Linux upgrade Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:17:17 -0400 Organization: WexfordPress Message-ID: <200606231017.17609.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <200606221918.07473.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151072377 11208 80.91.229.2 (23 Jun 2006 14:19:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:19:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jun 23 16:19:33 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FtmVK-00054X-Ud for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:19:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CEC012847; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:19:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24045-03; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:19:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A0FA12853; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:17:40 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3ADE212853 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:17:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 24045-02-2 for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:17:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mta10.adelphia.net (mta10.adelphia.net [68.168.78.202]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 422031284A for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 16:17:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from 24-48-52-137.ashbva.adelphia.net ([24.48.52.137]) by mta10.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060623141734.VLCH8020.mta10.adelphia.net@24-48-52-137.ashbva.adelphia.net> for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 10:17:34 -0400 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:28794 Archived-At: 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 > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context 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. -- John Culleton Books with answers to marketing and publishing questions: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf Book coaches, consultants and packagers: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf