From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20246 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: INstalling a new version of context Date: Sun, 08 May 2005 22:40:36 +0200 Message-ID: <427E7944.8080706@wxs.nl> References: <200505072029.13459.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115584463 25149 80.91.229.2 (8 May 2005 20:34:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 May 2005 20:34:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun May 08 22:34:20 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUsSj-000348-JF for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 May 2005 22:33:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAB91127BD; Sun, 8 May 2005 22:40:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25324-05-3; Sun, 8 May 2005 22:40:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CABD112780; Sun, 8 May 2005 22:40:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1AAD12780 for ; Sun, 8 May 2005 22:40:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25324-05-2 for ; Sun, 8 May 2005 22:40:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mailrelay02.solcon.nl (maillb.solcon.nl [212.45.32.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 184431277C for ; Sun, 8 May 2005 22:40:22 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mailrelay02.solcon.nl (8.12.11/SQL-8.12.11-5/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j48KeHSX001602 for ; Sun, 8 May 2005 22:40:17 +0200 Original-Received: by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix, from userid 65534) id 90936246D2; Sun, 8 May 2005 22:15:03 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.53] (unknown [10.100.1.53]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2EB9246D0 for ; Sun, 8 May 2005 20:15:01 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <200505072029.13459.john@wexfordpress.com> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.83, clamav-milter version 0.83 on mailrelay02 X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20246 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20246 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------