Re: updating ConTeXt (MacTeX)

[Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net>]

Am 2009-04-01 um 17:29 schrieb Robert Blackstone:

> >  but also there I manage to run into problems, mainly with
> > files and scripts that I can see in the finder but that are not
> > found in Terminal, not even from their parent directory.

Your problem has nothing to do with your above description!

You was talking about Terminal (i.e. bash), not ConTeXt!


> Step 5. In Terminal, type context --make and press Enter/Return.
>
> This yields:  MtxRun | unknown script 'context.lua' or 'mtx- 
> context.lua'
>
> Then I cd-ed stepwuse up to /Applications/ConTeXtMinimals/tex/texmf- 
> context/scripts/context/lua, after each cd trying to perform step 5,  
> and then finally I got:

...

> But for example cont-en.tex does exist on my Mac and it sits in  
> texmf-context/tex/context/base/cont-en.tex
>
> These files are not found. So I am a bit at a loss at what to try  
> next.

The page "http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals/Mac_Installation 
" that you seem to follow states:

"This page describes an alternative of installing ConTeXt Minimals on  
Mac OS X. In particular it describes how to configure some GUI  
applications to work well with minimals.
(For command-line gurus it is enough to follow the three steps  
described in ConTeXt Minimals.)"

The part "For command-line gurus" is misleading. Stay with http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals

Never install under /Applications if you don't know what you do!
Always install in your home folder; you'll run in less permission  
problems.

Open a new Terminal window (shell). You're in your home folder (~) now.

Create the context folder and change into it:

$ mkdir context
$ cd context

(Leave out the $, that's your shell prompt!)
Download first-setup.sh:

$ curl -o first-setup.sh http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/first-setup.sh

Make it executable:

$ chmod a+x first-setup.sh

Run it and go make tea:

$ sh ./first-setup.sh

Run the path setup:

$ ./tex/setuptex

ConTeXt should work now (i.e. at this moment in this shell window);  
you need to run the path setup with every new shell (i.e. Terminal)  
window; to automate that, you can add the "setuptex" command to your  
"profile", that's a script that gets called with every new shell window.

$ cd
$ echo "sh ~/context/tex/setuptex" >> .bash_profile

Are there any remaining problems?

I'll change the Wiki now.


Greetlings from Lake Constance!
Hraban
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