From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41776 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Mojca Miklavec" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Geeze, I might try Linux after all... (not too off-tpic I hope) Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:03:41 +0200 Message-ID: <6faad9f00806200003s57f528aahf6729ee562297a11@mail.gmail.com> References: <326847810806130328k73f9ed0bw4ec3ede296a29d55@mail.gmail.com> <326847810806140029x446fd539w8e54fefea57de4f0@mail.gmail.com> <4853760A.20109@elvenkind.com> <200806140725.12219.john@wexfordpress.com> <326847810806191240y180c1e90tc92a8039a85ca804@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1213945509 8447 80.91.229.12 (20 Jun 2008 07:05:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:05:09 +0000 (UTC) To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jun 20 09:05:52 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K9ago-0007yS-U2 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:05:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95C3F1FB1F; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:04:48 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09684-06-8; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:04:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D62231FDC8; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:04:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6B5C1FDC8 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:04:26 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 09685-02-12 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:03:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from yw-out-1718.google.com (yw-out-1718.google.com [74.125.46.155]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA7DF1FCA2 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 09:03:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by yw-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 5so842207ywm.74 for ; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:03:45 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.150.122.13 with SMTP id u13mr4585183ybc.69.1213945421354; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:03:41 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.151.83.13 with HTTP; Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:03:41 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <326847810806191240y180c1e90tc92a8039a85ca804@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:41776 Archived-At: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Alan Stone wrote: > Hi, > > I've have Ubuntu 8.04 running in a VirtualBox under WXP. No dual boot setup > necessary any more. How Cool ! Works like a charm - apart from a USB printer > problem. > > Installed TeX, ConTeXt and XeTeX through the Package Manager (to test > whether it worked). > > Now trying to update ConTeXt with > > ctxtools --updatecontext > > which gives > > CtxTools | updating > /etc/texmf:/var/lib/texmf:/usr/share/texmf:/usr/share/texmf-texlive > CtxTools | unable to change to > /etc/texmf:/var/lib/texmf:/usr/share/texmf:/usr/share/texmf-texlive > > whether I'm in root or not !??? > > What's the corresponding command for XeTeX ? ( tried --updatexetex which > failed ) You cannot update the binaries that way (you are not supposed to :). On your own risk, you may update the binaries from minimals rsync -av \ rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/current/bin/xetex/linux/bin/ \ /path/to/bin/with/xetex Mojca ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________