From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/42344 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: TeX Live and ConTeXt MKIV installation and maintenance Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:37:28 -0400 Message-ID: <20080710173728.365553w7h3q4vt44@web.mail.umich.edu> References: <200807092155.m69Ltvv20563@f7.net> <4875B6B7.6030702@elvenkind.com> <20080709210619.GL17086@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <200807092155.m69Ltvv20563@f7.net> <20080710082447.GA20554@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <4875D043.9020802@elvenkind.com> <20080710093404.GA29993@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> <48761507.1000603@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215725942 8129 80.91.229.12 (10 Jul 2008 21:39:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2008 21:39:02 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Jul 10 23:39:49 2008 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KH3rg-0000eV-TN for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:39:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A78321FDCC; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:38:54 +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 22738-02-4; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:38:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F2231FCF4; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:38:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 14C5F1FCF4 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:38:07 +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 21096-02-3 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:37:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from cree.web.itd.umich.edu (cree.web.itd.umich.edu [141.211.144.140]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DE991FDA2 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 23:37:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (from www@localhost) by cree.web.itd.umich.edu () id m6ALbSo7010943 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:37:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eecs4440p09.engin.umich.edu (eecs4440p09.engin.umich.edu [141.213.51.209]) by web.mail.umich.edu (Horde Framework) with HTTP; Thu, 10 Jul 2008 17:37:28 -0400 In-Reply-To: <48761507.1000603@elvenkind.com> Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H3 (4.2) X-Remote-Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3 X-IMP-Server: 141.211.144.221 (cree) X-Originating-IP: 141.213.51.209 X-Originating-User: adityam X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:42344 Archived-At: Quoting Taco Hoekwater : > > Hi all, > > There now is a wiki page documenting the setup and maintenance of mkiv: > > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV > > The page can still be improved upon (of course), so if you know > of something that needs to be added or explained better, please do so. > I wrote this page with the texlive 2008 users in mind, but I think most > of it applies to the new context minimals as well. This page is great. Thanks. > By the way, context on texlive2008 will be 2008.05.21. Mkii (pdftex > as well as xetex) runs out of the box, no post-install intervention > needed. But if someone is willing to do some extra tests, that will > be much appreciated. How to beta-test texlive2008 is explained in > > ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlnet/tldev/README Is it possible to test texlive without uninstalling texlive2007 installed by a system package manager? Last time I tried texlive 2008, mkiv setup was reading texmf.cnf that came with system installed tl2007, and therefore could not find the correct files. I want to test tl2008, but at the moment cannot afford to uninstall tl2007. 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