From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/32848 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: error: the file 'texexec' is not found Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:08:42 +0100 Message-ID: <45B098AA.7030000@elvenkind.com> References: <20070118225737.4087.qmail@web58401.mail.re3.yahoo.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169201833 14996 80.91.229.12 (19 Jan 2007 10:17:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:17:13 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jan 19 11:17:10 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H7qnz-0000gE-WF for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:17:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9087620021; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:12:34 +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 26585-04; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:12:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9549120014; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:07:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 587D620019 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:07:47 +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 26584-03 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:07:37 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lochside.elvenkind.com (elvenknd.xs4all.nl [213.84.171.68]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 784FC20014 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:04:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by lochside.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3194768902 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:08:42 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from lochside.elvenkind.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (glenfiddich.elvenkind.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06222-05 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:08:40 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.10.0.6] (glenlivet.elvenkind.com [10.10.0.6]) by lochside.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D90F668900 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:08:40 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070111) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <20070118225737.4087.qmail@web58401.mail.re3.yahoo.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at elvenkind.net X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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:32848 Archived-At: Bob Reynolds wrote: > Hi, > > I just updated my TeX (and ConTeXt) tree, based on the > linuxtex.zip file at > http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm, at > /usr/local/share/tex from about the August version and > after a few minor tweaks I've got it working. No other > TeX stuff is installed on my Gentoo system. One big > problem: all of a sudden, I need to run "source > /usr/local/share/tex/setuptex" or else a command like > "texmfstart texexec --color 'story.tex'" exits with an > error message "the file 'texexec' is not found". This > breaks the Kile program that I use to write and > compile TeX files. Is there any way to get this or > something similar that's not in a bash environment to > just work? It looks like this is a side-effect of a not-too-robust installation, may apparent by switching from the perl version of texexec to the ruby version. The simple and best solution is to add the "source setuptex" to one of your login scripts. Taco