From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/44409 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Alan BRASLAU Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Texlive2008 and updating context Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:06:30 +0200 Organization: CEA DSM-IRAMIS-SPEC Message-ID: <200809291406.30350.alan.braslau@cea.fr> References: <6048c4180809290038v43868e38lc62579b997b7568c@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00809290347n335ad6f7yc2f326f76a742c9f@mail.gmail.com> <6faad9f00809290349t18e7dd38l1284abb5c2fa3a55@mail.gmail.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 1222690334 25985 80.91.229.12 (29 Sep 2008 12:12:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:12:14 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Sep 29 14:13:13 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KkHcl-00034G-Vf for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:13:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7898C1FE72; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:12:05 +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 28960-01-7; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:11:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 891511FBCC; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:11:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04BA41FB6B for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:11:05 +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 28679-08-3 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:10:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from cirse-out.extra.cea.fr (cirse-out.extra.cea.fr [132.166.172.106]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 774031FBDB for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:10:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from nephilia.intra.cea.fr (nephilia.intra.cea.fr [132.166.88.33]) by cirse.extra.cea.fr (8.14.2/8.14.2/CEAnet-Internet-out-1.0) with ESMTP id m8TCAMJ0029017 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:10:22 +0200 Original-Received: from orpin1.extra.cea.fr (orpin1.extra.cea.fr [132.167.198.4]) by nephilia.intra.cea.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m8TCALTb020963 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:10:21 +0200 (envelope-from alan.braslau@cea.fr) Original-Received: from dogger.localnet (dogger.saclay.cea.fr [132.166.21.4]) by orpin1.extra.cea.fr (8.13.8/8.13.8/CEAnet-Extranet-out-1.0) with ESMTP id m8TCALFv013954 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:10:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.1 (Linux/2.6.26; KDE/4.1.1; i686; ; ) In-Reply-To: <6faad9f00809290349t18e7dd38l1284abb5c2fa3a55@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline 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:44409 Archived-At: 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 > > 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 > > ___________________________________________________________________________ >________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an > entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : > http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________ >________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________