From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/23520 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Debian Install Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:43:44 +0100 Message-ID: <437C42C0.40406@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1132217270 16807 80.91.229.2 (17 Nov 2005 08:47:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:47:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Nov 17 09:47:40 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 1EcfPy-0006Il-Ts for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:46:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75E14127F5; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:46:54 +0100 (CET) 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 06865-01; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:46:53 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 643E4127F3; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:43:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9B37127F3 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:43:48 +0100 (CET) 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 05966-03 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:43:48 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from controller-1 (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0EC2127F0 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:43:47 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 3640 for ; Thu, 17 Nov 2005 09:47:25 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: 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: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:23520 Archived-At: Jessica Holle wrote: >Hi, > >in the evening I want to install ConTeXt on my home system. It's >Debian testing. >It,s easy to install in debian I see. With apt-get it works. >But now my question. >In you documentation in the wiki is written that ConTeXt should be >installed in ~/texmf >But the structure is another as when I do it to /usr/local/teTeX . >Must I do softlinks to this path to get context to work? Or do I >only install teTeX like in the >documentation and then install ConTeXt to /home/$USER/texmf and it >works? > > it does not really matter where you install it, as long as it comes first in the search path the search order is set in the $TEXMF variable, which you can adapt if needed, for instance things like mkdir /lets/do/it/my/way/tex chdir /lets/do/it/my/way/tex unzip cont-tmf.zip MYTREE=/lets/do/it/my/way/tex export MYTREE TEXMF={$MYTREE,.....} export TEXMF mktexlsr texmfstart texexec --make --all should work(in principle) but ... isn't there a texmf-local path? another option is: run: kpsewhich --progname=context context.tex see what path is reported goto the texmf root of that path unzip context there run mktexlsr etc for the rest ... tetex has a rather complex path set up (any combination of usr, home, local, texmf, var, ... could be in use -) so in case of doubt you need to take a look at your expanded $TEX... environment variables in order to see you can give this a try: tmftools --expand-var=* (given that tmftools is on your system) Hans