Re: texexec not finding cont-en

[Patrick Gundlach <pg@levana.de>]

Gary <pajer@iname.com> writes:

Hello Gary,

> I've installed the default teTeX distribution that comes with Mandrake.
> I've installed the latest ConTeXt beta

How? Did you copy the new files over the old ones?


> I've edited texexec.ini, commenting out the reference to l:/...

You shouldn't need to do this.

> I've edited ... what was it ... fmtedit?? darn, can't remember, but
> I uncommented two lines that refer to cont-en and cont-nl

fmtutil --edit?


> I've added to PATH:
> /usr/share/texmf
> /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base
> /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/config

Not needed, please don't do so.

> I've made cont-en.tex and cont-en.ini executable

not needed, as well.

> But texexec --pdf filename.tex returns with
> sh: line 1: cont-en: command not found
>
> so cont-en is either not on the path or not executable, right?

it does not need to be there. So something else must be wrong.


> Please be explicit:  

> are we talking about cont-en.tex, cont-en.ini, or cont-en.tws?

neither nor. We are talking mainly about the executable files
texexec, pdfetex and the texexec.ini config file for texexec (so many
config files!)


> Where is the usual place to put it?

Don't know where the usual place is, but I keep my ConTeXt
installation separate from the tetex installation, since I like to
keep things apart. I changed the config file texmf.cfg and included
the ConTeXt path.

Nevertheless, it should be possible to install the ConTeXt beta over
the tetex installation.

> When adding to path, is the shell environment PATH variable what's meant? or 
> is there some way within ConTeXt to set a path?

Yes, no.


> What else could be wrong?

Please post the output of `texexec --verb' and the output of
`kpsewhich cont-en.efmt' and `type texexec'.


Patrick