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From: Robert Blackstone <blackstone.robert@gmail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Problem installing minimals on PowerMac G4
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2011 13:19:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTinV-Op4Mw5RciUfN+_frU+S_pZpoQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTimnst1w6EGsZ89Na9=tB7hJQRJPCA@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at  10:05:15,  Mojca Miklavec wrote
>  Please try to open Terminal.app and write:
>
> source /Users/robert/context-minimals-04-06/tex/setuptex
> context /Users/robertblackstone/Dropbox/C-tests/Titles-interline_spacing_of/Titles-interline_spacing_of-test1PM.tex
>
> and see if that one fails as well.
>
When I write:
source /Users/robertblackstone/context-minimals-04-06-11/tex/setuptex,
 (this is the correct name)
in all but one caseTerminal responds with:

"/Users/robertblackstone/context-minimals-04-06-11" is not a valid TEXROOT path.
(There is no file
"/Users/robertblackstone/context-minimals-04-06-11/texmf/tex/plain/base/plain.tex")
provide a proper tex root (like '. setuptex /something/tex')"

Only if I change the working directory to
/Users/robertblackstone/context-minimals-04-06-11/tex/ the response
is: "Setting "/Users/robertblackstone/context-minimals-04-06-11/tex"
as ConTeXt root." and I can process tex-files both with mkii and mkiv
. The resulting pdf, however, placed in the same working directory, is
not correct.

I found, helped by ConTeXt garden, that I could activate
ConTeXt-minimals-04-06-11 on this machine by typing:
"export PATH=/Users/robertblackstone/ConTeXt-minimals-04-06-11/tex/texmf-osx-ppc/bin:$PATH"
from any directory and get the correct output.
I accordingly changed the TeXShop engine and that also works now.

The only issue still remaining is the interruption during the
installation process. I have no clue as to what could be the cause. I
tried to avoid it by running "umask 0022" and even "umask 0002" before
creating the new minimals directory, but that did not help.
But using ctrl-D a few times, as Mojca suggested, when the
installation process stops midway, eventually results in a usable
minimals. Maybe some functions do not work but I have not yet
discovered any.
So that might not be a real problem after all.
Thanks for the help.


Kind regards,
Robert Blackstone
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-06-10 11:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
2011-06-11 11:58   ` Mojca Miklavec
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-06-04 14:40 Robert Blackstone
2011-06-05  1:23 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-03 17:16 Robert Blackstone
2011-06-03 18:27 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-06-02 15:37 Robert Blackstone
2011-06-02 15:53 ` Mojca Miklavec

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