From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/31489 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sanjoy Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: ConTeXt on Debian: The wiki entry Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:47:23 +0100 Message-ID: References: <86hcxv77l9.fsf@alhambra.kuesterei.ch> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1161636478 28607 80.91.229.2 (23 Oct 2006 20:47:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:47:58 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Oct 23 22:47:54 2006 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 ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gc6hx-0002mf-T6 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:47:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CDE21FB43; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:47:41 +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 02437-04-5; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:47:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 222511FBFE; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:47:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5741B1FDFF for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:47:29 +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 02437-04-4 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:47:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk (mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk [131.111.48.8]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 58A521FB43 for ; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:47:25 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.48.158] ident=mail) by mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gc6hf-0006Zo-So; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:47:23 +0100 Original-Received: from sanjoy by skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1Gc6hf-000809-00; Mon, 23 Oct 2006 21:47:23 +0100 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:35:30 +0200." <86hcxv77l9.fsf@alhambra.kuesterei.ch> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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:31489 Archived-At: > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Debian_installation > Are some of the people around who wrote this? I wrote some of it (hangs head in shame) by typing in all the steps I had to use on my Debian stable/testing system to get a newer ConTeXt to work with tetex 3.0 as the basis. I agree, it is confusing and I hope it can be improved. In the previous discussion, the issue came up of whether ConTeXt should be installed per user or for the whole system. The Debian_installation instructions on the wiki are for a per-user install, because I couldn't figure out a robust way of having an easily updatable installation that goes in TEXMFLOCAL. A system-wide installation, if done cleanly, would be much easier (as plink pointed out). If you (or 'texexec --make' to generate the formats) ask kpathsea where to put the format files, it'll give you a directory in TEXMFHOME, so a per user install. But how do you ask kpathsea the correct question so that it'll tell you where they should go for a system-wide install? -Sanjoy `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.' --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.