texlive-context problem on Ubuntu

texlive-context problem on Ubuntu

[Majukatur]

I'm having problems running ConTeXt on my Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty).

I have installed the texlive and texlive-context packages from the ubuntu
repository with apt-get.

$ sudo apt-get install texlive texlive-context

Everything fine up to this point. Then I tested the principal programs:

$ tex --verbose
$ latex --verbose
$ texexec --verbose

I've made page-tests with TeX and LaTeX without problems, but with ConTeXt the
"thing" is different.

texexec is installed on the system, but when I try to build a test-page (a
very simple one) texexec fails. The code of my test file is the same I have
found on the ConTeXt Wiki:

hello.tex:

\starttext
Hello World
\stoptext

That's all. The resulting screen is too long to post it here, but the last lines
show this:

.
.
.
! Font \*12ptrmtf*=ec-lmr12 not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
<to be read again>
                   \relax
\xxdododefinefont ...tspec {#4}\newfontidentifier
                                                  \let \localrelativefontsiz...

\fontstrategy ...ame #1\csname #2#3#4#5\endcsname
                                                  \tryingfontfalse \fi
<inserted text> ...yle \fontalternative \fontsize
                                                  \fi \iftryingfont \fontstr...

\synchronizefont ...strategy \the \fontstrategies
                                                  \relax \fi \ifskipfontchar...
<argument> \getvalue {\@style@ \fontstyle }
                                           \edef \fontstyle {\fontstyle }\if...
...
l.1
    \starttext
?


As you can see, texexec have problems finding the \starttext definition, I
supose that this is related with the system paths, I've expended some time
(several hours indeed) trying to figure out what the problem is and trying to
fix it. I modify the texexec.ini with my system's texlive paths, and I've
followed the instructions I've found on the ConTeXt Wiki but all was in vain.

I get suscribed to this mailing list with the hope that somebody could tell me
what's wrong and how can I fix this problem.

thank you very much
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Re: texlive-context problem on Ubuntu

[Taco Hoekwater]

Majukatur wrote:
> I'm having problems running ConTeXt on my Kubuntu 7.04 (Feisty).
> 

You did not install the latin modern fonts: texlive-fonts-recommended

You may need some other packages as well. Please check on the wiki:

   http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Ubuntu_installation

Best wishes,
Taco

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Re: texlive-context problem on Ubuntu

[Sanjoy Mahajan]

> You did not install the latin modern fonts: texlive-fonts-recommended

I don't think that package includes the latin modern fonts.  The
'lmodern' package (which has ec-lmr10.tfm etc.) might also be needed.

I'm not sure why texlive-context does not automatically depend on the
proper font packages.  Here are its dependencies:

  $ apt-cache show texlive-context

  Depends: perl-tk, libxml-parser-perl, texlive-pdfetex, texlive-base |
    tetex-bin, texlive-common (>= 2005.dfsg.2-1), texlive-metapost

> I have installed the texlive and texlive-context packages from the
> ubuntu repository with apt-get.

It sounds like you're using the texlive-2005 packages from the feisty
repositories.  Those pkgs provide the 1995.10.10 version of context,
which is almost two years old.  Most features work unchanged, but if
you want a newer version of ConTeXt (2007.04.17), follow the Ubuntu
instructions on the wiki.

-Sanjoy
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Re: texlive-context problem on Ubuntu

[Majukatur]

Hi!

I've solved my problem. I downloaded the TeXlive 2007 DVD and
everything worked fine, I had no more problems with ConTeXt nor with
any other TeX application/package.

Thank you for your advices and recommendations.
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