Re: Context Minimal Linux installation on MAC Leopard

["Giulio Bertellini" <gbtext@gmail.com>]

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Thank you for your reply. Over the weekend, I think I attempted to install
Linux Binaries out of the expectation that Linux binaries would work on any
X86 machine, provided perl and ruby are  available.

I am new to the mac environment and the reason I bought it was to be able to
have a nice user interface on top of a long established BSD UNIX
distribution. I was also assuming that on that type of machine, I could do
what is easily done on a Linux machine.


Giulio
On 1/9/08, Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Jan 9, 2008 11:47 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> >
> > On Jan 9, 2008 11:24 AM, Giulio Bertellini wrote:
> > > I thought I could install the Context Minimal Linux installation also
> ona
> > > Mac with Leopard. I did not succeed.
> > >
> > > Has anybody tried it. What is the suggested minimal distribution for
> Context
> > > to install on a Mac with Leopard?
> > >
> > > All suggestions are welcome.
> >
> > Hmmm .... that's not a source package, otherwise it would work.
> > But which "ConTeXt Minimal Linux Intallation" exactly are you talking
> > about? There is one at pragma website
> >     http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm
> > where you need to download macosxtex.zip and justtex.zip, and there's
> one at
> >     http://minimals.contextgarden.net/
> > with some not-yet-fully-stable installer which uses rsync to fetch and
> > update the files.
>
> I forgot to answer your main question: on pragma, macosxtex includes
> powerpc binaries which should work on any mac. On the garden the
> binaries are separate for powerpc and intel, perhaps slightly more
> recent and slightly less tested.
>
> I've heard many leopard users complaining, but only about prolems with
> compilation. Once compiled on Tiger, the binaries seem to work OK.
>
> Mojca
>
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