From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24095 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: installing tetex on ubuntu : basics log Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2005 17:32:16 +0100 Message-ID: <43931A10.6060805@elvenkind.com> References: <20051202122720.7a40c7aa@localhost.localdomain> 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 1133714114 18118 80.91.229.2 (4 Dec 2005 16:35:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2005 16:35:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Dec 04 17:35:12 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 1Eiwo0-0001LJ-ED for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 17:33:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0941C1279D; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 17:33:40 +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 28969-03-6; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 17:33:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F360127A5; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 17:33:35 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A7E9127A5 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 17:33:34 +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 28969-03-5 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 17:33:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from post-23.mail.nl.demon.net (post-23.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.193]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 658331279D for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2005 17:33:33 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from boo.demon.nl ([82.161.175.147]:60394 helo=[192.168.1.3]) by post-23.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.51) id 1Eiwns-000NeG-Ve for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Sun, 04 Dec 2005 16:33:33 +0000 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050215) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20051202122720.7a40c7aa@localhost.localdomain> 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:24095 Archived-At: olivier Turlier wrote: > Hi everybody, > Starting to try installing correctly tetex3 on ubuntu, I wanted to ask > tons of questions. While formatting this mail, I've succeed in > installing tetex3. Maybe what follows can be worth fore somebody more > noooobie than me (is that possible?), or for a pre-beginner doc. > > Following http://wiki.contextgarden.net/TeTeX_3.0_installation > and beginning of http://tug.org/teTeX/tetex-src/QuickInstall, i've : > > dwld * tetex-src.tar.gz & tetex-texmf.tar.gz > sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf > sudo mkdir -p /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist > > SHIT HAPPENS HERE : it's like i'm missing some basic commands, > because if I type what next, term conplains : gzip -dc > tetex-texmf.tar.gz \| (umask 0; cd /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-dist; > tar xvf -) I think I've solved this: I just realized you have \| here, where it should have been just a |, without backslash. The backslash on the line above it in the quickinstall is there to "hide" the newline that follows it from the shell (look up 'backslash' in bash-s man page) Cheers, Taco