From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: INstalling a new version of context
Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 22:40:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <427E7944.8080706@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200505072029.13459.john@wexfordpress.com>
John R. Culleton wrote:
> On Saturday 07 May 2005 06:01 pm, olibou@free.fr wrote:
>
>>Hello !
>>
>>I tried to install a new version of context, since somebody suggest to
>>do it (BTW I do not know how know what version of context I have
>>... running texexec --version gives me the version of texexec, I
>>presume, not the version of context ... but anyway ... that not my
>>sole problem, as for now).
>>
>>So I used to have a version of context install by default :-) on my
>>mandrake 10.1 distribution of linux ...
>
>
> The upgrading of Context or even of pdftex is sufficiently
> failure prone that I have given up trying. Instead I used the
> latest packages from Slackware current and installed those.
> When TeX live is updated again next winter I will upgrade to that
> level. The instructions never seem to deal with the exact
> configuration one is dealing with. Frankly I would rather spend
> my time typesetting and laying out books. So I accept the newest
> complete package that seems to work and reinstall. In theory I
> could upgrade, in fact I am better off waiting for the next
> complete distro from either TeXlive or Slack.
most linux distros ship old tex's and it's no secret that one cannot combine
tetex with tex live without problems; it's one or the other.
an option with regardd to context is to download the linuxtex zip from our site
and install an extra tex tree for context only and install updates in that tree
(under texmf-local)
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-08 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-07 18:01 olibou
2005-05-07 20:29 ` John R. Culleton
2005-05-08 8:18 ` olibou
2005-05-08 20:40 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2005-05-08 20:44 ` Hans Hagen
2005-05-09 10:24 ` John R. Culleton
[not found] <20050508100002.AAEAA127B3@ronja.ntg.nl>
2005-05-09 3:01 ` bb
2005-05-09 9:18 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-05-09 15:45 ` bb
2005-05-09 17:01 ` Taco Hoekwater
2005-05-09 19:12 ` bb
2005-05-09 20:21 ` Hans Hagen
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