From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/28805 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 18:00:52 -0400 Organization: WexfordPress Message-ID: <200606231800.52734.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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151100089 9112 80.91.229.2 (23 Jun 2006 22:01:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 22:01:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Jun 24 00:01:24 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 1FttiM-0002D0-H4 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:01:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE2EF12867; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:01:21 +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 26675-07; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:01:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66EE912854; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:01:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8840212854 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:01:09 +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 26755-03 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:01:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mta9.adelphia.net (mta9.adelphia.net [68.168.78.199]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id B7059127F6 for ; Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:01:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from 24-48-52-137.ashbva.adelphia.net ([24.48.52.137]) by mta9.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20060623220103.WLFL28449.mta9.adelphia.net@24-48-52-137.ashbva.adelphia.net> for ; Fri, 23 Jun 2006 18:01:03 -0400 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl 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:28805 Archived-At: On Friday 23 June 2006 12:34 pm, Peter M=FCnster wrote: > On Thu, 22 Jun 2006, John R. Culleton wrote: > > So next I tried linux binaries only. Still no joy. > > Hello John, > you could try the tetex-rpm from http://pmrb.free.fr/work/OS/ConTeXt/tete= x/ > It has the latest ConTeXt (also latest pdfTeX and MetaPost) and a command > "updateConTeXt.sh" to easily update to the most recent ConTeXt. > Cheers, Peter Now that is in interesting download. I see the following files and instructions: -------------------------------------------------------- tetex-3.0-3.i586.rpm-1 20-Jun-2006 17:54 66.8M = [ ] tetex-3.0-3.i586.rpm-2 20-Jun-2006 17:56 41.8M = [SND] tetex-3.0-3.nosrc.rpm 20-Jun-2006 17:56 11k = [ ] tetex-3.0-3.src.rpm-1 20-Jun-2006 17:58 66.8M = [ ] tetex-3.0-3.src.rpm-2 20-Jun-2006 18:01 62.0M = [SND] tetex-3.0-4.nosrc.rpm 21-Jun-2006 21:35 11k = To get the package tetex-3.0-3.i586.rpm, you need to do cat tetex-3.0-3.i586.rpm-1 tetex-3.0-3.i586.rpm-2 >tetex-3.0-3.i586.rpm To get the package tetex-3.0-3.src.rpm, you need to do cat tetex-3.0-3.src.rpm-1 tetex-3.0-3.src.rpm-2 >tetex-3.0-3.src.rpm Both packages can be build from tetex-3.0-3.nosrc.rpm Peter ------------------------------------------------ OK if I catenate the two 586 files, I get one rpm. Presumably I can just unpack the rpm and go. Or do I need to do something with one of the two nosrc RPMs? And why are there two nosrc RPMs? = I'm a tarball guy myself, although Slack has an RPM command too. Anyhow the first two are downloading right now. Stay tuned. Advice welcome. = -- = 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