ConTeXt and TeXLive?

ConTeXt and TeXLive?

[Frans Goddijn]

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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!

Groet,

Frans

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Re: ConTeXt and TeXLive?

[Hans Hagen]

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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