Re: ConTeXt and TeXLive?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 12:12 AM 2/18/2002 +0100, Frans Goddijn wrote:
>Have some people here on the list used the TeXLive cd to install ConTeXt?
>
>I am trying it now. The reason being that I'd like some standardized 
>system to update my TeX setup, instead of the way I was running it so far 
>(an installation of ActivePerl, an installation of fpTeX, files taken from 
>the ConTeXt homepage and installed into the fpTeX tree, plus my old 4TEX 
>complete setup for older files...)
>
>I find it very hard. The win32 installation program of TeXLive SEEMS 
>buggy. It defaults to certain destination directories (c:\tex\... instead 
>of the silly windows-like "c:\ program files\...") that I'd like to change 
>but if I do, there is no option anymore for a quick-install. If I do 
>something else than a quick-install, the result is an error message 
>stating either no specific error on the halted installation or a message 
>stating that "at least" one other TeX installation was found. I carefully 
>deleted all other TeX installations to avoid that (so I lost these 
>alternatives for the time being...) but the result is the same.
>
>Some installation files fail, if the web source has changed 
>URL/name/directory.
>
>Now I wonder what I should do. Either move on to try to get this to work 
>or just scrap it all and try to reconstruct the non-standard mess that I 
>had (but a mess that worked for me...)
>
>PERL seems to be installed, at least lots of perl files are there in their 
>directory, but if I type PERL on the command line, it is not found. I can 
>change the path variable to correct that but I would think the TeXLive 
>installation of their preferent type of Perl would've done the 
>"installation" for me...
>
>To use the texexec.pl for context, I need to get the texutil package, but 
>I can't seem to find it on Pragma's web site. Is it named something other 
>than texutil?
>
>If using TeXLive means a similarly grueling experience to get stuff to 
>work, I might be better off wihout it, or today is just not my lucky day 
>for TeX developments ;=}
>
>Any tips are welcome!

since you have enough disk space: just copy the whole cdrom to 
c:\tex\texmf\... and set

set TEXMFMAIN=c:\tex\texmf
set TEXMFCNF=c:\tex\texmf\web2c

[additionally you can set TEXMF-LOCAL, TEXMF-FONTS, VARTEXMF etc]

copy the windows binaries and add the win32 bin path to your windows path 
and things should kind of work then;

Hans

You can use the setup program to do a more careful and subtle installation -)
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