From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/24312 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: linux installations Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:48:53 +0100 Message-ID: <439EA715.1010101@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 1134471244 24194 80.91.229.2 (13 Dec 2005 10:54:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 10:54:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Dec 13 11:53:58 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 1Em7lg-0002PL-4e for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:52:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF08B12772; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:52:23 +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 02194-02; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:52:23 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30D8B12819; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:48:58 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 577D612819 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:48:56 +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 01875-09-9 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:48:55 +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 5069C12814 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:48:55 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 7488 for ; Tue, 13 Dec 2005 11:55:25 +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:24312 Archived-At: Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: > This last step gave and still gives me some headaches (my last > attempt was with Opensuse 10.1 alpha 4), and that's where I ask for > some elucidation: texexec does not rely on kpsewhich to locate the > directory where it dumps the texexec useses kpse but your texmf.cnf file may be kind of non standard; maybe you need to tweak that one > formats. So what I've seen happening is that I have brandnew formats > in one place, yet texexec --version will still display the old > versions (or say somehting like "cont-en.fmt unknown"). I have often > just found out where kpsewhich searches for the formats and then > replaced these old formats with symlinks to the new ones, but I'm not > quite sure if this is a good approach. Does anyone have more insights > on this? What's with this proliferation of TEXMF-trees in recent > versions of teTeX: which ones do we actually need? Which ones can be > deleted safely? good point ... i lost track of that long ago; there is some info in the tex live manual about all those additional home/sys/whatever trees, maybe reading that manual helps Hans