Re: Texlive2008 and updating context

From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Texlive2008 and updating context
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:06:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200809291406.30350.alan.braslau@cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00809290349t18e7dd38l1284abb5c2fa3a55@mail.gmail.com>

Yes, please, it is confusing.
On the Wiki different instructions appear
in several places (mkIV, minimals, TeXlive, debian...).
It would be quite nice if somebody who understands
this all could clean-up the instructions, in particular,
structure the information in a clearer fashion.
Thanks.

Alan

On Monday 29 September 2008 12:49:24 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> I just forgot to add: the situation with updates is a bit confusing at
> the moment, but that's not your fault. Hopefully it will improve soon.
>
> Mojca
>
> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Mojca Miklavec
>
> <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:38 AM, Mehdi Omidali wrote:
> >> Hi everyone,
> >> I have followed any thread about updating context (on Texlive2008 on
> >> ubuntu) and no success yet. After running
> >> sudo ctxtools --updatecontext
> >
> > This command doesn't necessary do what you always desire: it puts
> > ConTeXt to texmf-local. This means that any further updates that you
> > might try to make with tlmgr (TeX Live manager) will be shielded by
> > your local copy. That's OK, but you need to be aware that you then
> > have two copies of ConTeXt on your computer, and the one in
> > texmf-local will be used.
> >
> > And there is something that might bite you with this as well. TeX Live
> > is currently configured so that luatools & mtxrun binaries are taken
> > from texmf-dist/scripts. If the rest of files comes from texmf-local,
> > you might end in troubles/incompatibilities between the two versions.
> > You probably need to fix symlinks of luatools and mtxrun manually.
> >
> >> and
> >> luatools --generate
> >> everything went smooth. But after
> >>
> >> texexec --make --luatex en
> >>
> >> I got the following
> >>
> >> Should I create the cache path /home/mehdi? [yes|no] [no]
> >>
> >> and after pressing Enter I got
> >>
> >> fatal error: there is no valid (writable) cache path defined
> >
> > You need to update LuaTeX binary as well. See
> > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Running_Mark_IV. But there are still
> > some issues. Namely, you need to fix symlinks of luatools and mtxrun
> > to point to the proper file. And you might need to remove files in
> > texmf-local that belong to ConTeXt as a result of "ctxtools
> > --updatecontext" (it's up to you which tree you want to use; I
> > overwrite files in texmf-dist with some care).
> >
> > Mojca
>
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