From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41778 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Alan Stone" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:45:27 +0200 Message-ID: <326847810806192345u1c8170a3x788792d9dd1f0b19@mail.gmail.com> References: <326847810806130328k73f9ed0bw4ec3ede296a29d55@mail.gmail.com> <326847810806140029x446fd539w8e54fefea57de4f0@mail.gmail.com> <4853760A.20109@elvenkind.com> <200806140725.12219.john@wexfordpress.com> <326847810806191240y180c1e90tc92a8039a85ca804@mail.gmail.com> <115224fb0806192337n6f713986mbddc5b11cb279af@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0182651117==" X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213946641 12081 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2008 07:24:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:24:01 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jun 20 09:24:44 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 1K9az8-0006Fj-T2 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:24:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 379961FC07; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:23:45 +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 13339-04-7; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:23:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEEBB1FC11; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:22:17 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05BBB1FC09 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:22:16 +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 14352-01-4 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:21:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ik-out-1112.google.com (ik-out-1112.google.com [66.249.90.181]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D47B01FDCE for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:45:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by ik-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c21so609862ika.2 for ; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:45:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.210.81.10 with SMTP id e10mr2691448ebb.44.1213944327424; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:45:27 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.210.136.3 with HTTP; Thu, 19 Jun 2008 23:45:27 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <115224fb0806192337n6f713986mbddc5b11cb279af@mail.gmail.com> 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:41778 Archived-At: --===============0182651117== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_6128_5274606.1213944327402" ------=_Part_6128_5274606.1213944327402 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline At least ctxtools --updatecontext should work. The /etc/texmf:/var/lib/texmf:/usr/share/texmf:/usr/share/texmf-texlive are there. Or am I (again) missing something ? On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Wolfgang Schuster < schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Alan Stone > wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've have Ubuntu 8.04 running in a VirtualBox under WXP. No dual boot > setup > > necessary any more. How Cool ! Works like a charm - apart from a USB > printer > > problem. > > > > Installed TeX, ConTeXt and XeTeX through the Package Manager (to test > > whether it worked). > > > > Now trying to update ConTeXt with > > > > ctxtools --updatecontext > > > > which gives > > > > CtxTools | updating > > /etc/texmf:/var/lib/texmf:/usr/share/texmf:/usr/share/texmf-texlive > > CtxTools | unable to change to > > /etc/texmf:/var/lib/texmf:/usr/share/texmf:/usr/share/texmf-texlive > > > > whether I'm in root or not !??? > > > > What's the corresponding command for XeTeX ? ( tried --updatexetex which > > failed ) > > Why should this work, XeTeX is a binary and ConTeXt a TeX macro package > independant of the engine (one fits it all). > > Regards > Wolfgang > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > 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 > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > ------=_Part_6128_5274606.1213944327402 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline At least ctxtools --updatecontext should work.
The /etc/texmf:/var/lib/texmf:/usr/share/texmf:/usr/share/texmf-texlive are there.

Or am I (again) missing something ?

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 8:37 AM, Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Alan Stone
<software.list.1es9s@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've have Ubuntu 8.04 running in a VirtualBox under WXP. No dual boot setup
> necessary any more. How Cool ! Works like a charm - apart from a USB printer
> problem.
>
> Installed TeX, ConTeXt and XeTeX through the Package Manager (to test
> whether it worked).
>
> Now trying to update ConTeXt with
>
> ctxtools --updatecontext
>
> which gives
>
> CtxTools | updating
> /etc/texmf:/var/lib/texmf:/usr/share/texmf:/usr/share/texmf-texlive
> CtxTools | unable to change to
> /etc/texmf:/var/lib/texmf:/usr/share/texmf:/usr/share/texmf-texlive
>
> whether I'm in root or not !???
>
> What's the corresponding command for XeTeX ? ( tried --updatexetex which
> failed )

Why should this work, XeTeX is a binary and ConTeXt a TeX macro package
independant of the engine (one fits it all).

Regards
Wolfgang
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