From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Problem installing minimals on PowerMac G4
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 17:53:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=-+D6+ypCVb=jAhFn2SLkt4qOkGg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikgP-NkZRVHJFh0duuTzdeVEScXXg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 17:37, Robert Blackstone wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When installing the current version of ConTeXt-minimals on my old
> PowerMac G4 (OSX 10.4.11), on which the minimals have been installed,
> and have worked, without any problems up till october last year, the
> process stopped midway, because the file 'metafun' could not be
> opened.
Where did you install the minimals?
Can you try
chown -R yourusername /path/to/installation
?
> The last lines of the log are:
>
> "TeXExec | using tex engine xetex
> TeXExec | using tex format path ./xetex
> TeXExec | unable to make format due to lack of permissions
> TeXExec | using mp engine mpost
> TeXExec | using mps format path .
> TeXExec | generating mps format metafun
> This is MetaPost, version 1.504 (kpathsea version 6.0.0)
> ! I can't open file `metafun'.
> <*> metafun
>
> Please type another input file name: "
>
> Does anybody know what can be done about this?
> (I even do not know how to abort the process other than quitting Terminal.)
Ctrl-C (a couple of times), Ctrl-D, Ctrl-\, ... or killall (but I'm
not experience enough in giving you further details).
Mojca
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-02 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-02 15:37 Robert Blackstone
2011-06-02 15:53 ` Mojca Miklavec [this message]
2011-06-03 17:16 Robert Blackstone
2011-06-03 18:27 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-04 14:40 Robert Blackstone
2011-06-05 1:23 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-06 7:59 Robert Blackstone
2011-06-06 8:05 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-06 10:19 ` Taco Hoekwater
2011-06-10 11:19 ` Robert Blackstone
2011-06-11 11:58 ` Mojca Miklavec
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