Fedora 9 (Linux) Installation

[abbg770@city.ac.uk]

Hi,

I can't seem to install ConTeXt manually. I've literally followed this page 
http://wiki.contextgaraden.net/Linux_User_Installation verbatim and I can't 
seem to compile even the most basic of documents. I'm running Fedora9 bit, 
and I do happen to have TeXLive with ConTeXt installed. The thing is I 
don't want to ruin the current install rather I'd like to have a version of 
ConTeXt that lives in my ~/. so that I can play about with it, I'm 
particurarly after the fonts that come with it.
 
I've attached some files with the outputs of running the commands.

a.  source ~/.context_env $PWD/tex => results in nothing.
b.  mktexlsr => mktexlsrlog.txt
c.  texexec --version => texexec-version-log.txt
d.  texexec --check => check-texexec-log(copy).txt

         This simply doesn't work on my install it's meant to do what the 
author of the page said --- "This will give you a lot of lines of output 
including the versions of various scripts, the version of pdftex and the 
version of ConTeXt. It will also generate a test file and run it through 
ConTeXt. You should get a pdf file called texexec.pdf with the word 
"Test".". Didn't get anything :(.

e.  texexec first.tex => texexec-first-log.txt



Ok now that's out of the way i've got a few questions regarding ConTeXt 
itself.

1. Is there an equivalent of the listing package? Take a look at 
listing-sample.pdf. It's also highly customizable, allowing me to change 
the colour etc. For instance here is my setup.

\lstset{breaklines=true, showlines=true, % showing line numbers 
numbers=left, % where to show line numbers 
numberstyle=\scriptsize\sffamily\color{gray}, % numbersep=10pt, % 
stepnumber=1, % how often to show the line number on the left 
language=Java, % specifiy the language basicstyle=\scriptsize\ttfamily, % 
print whole listing small keywordstyle=\bfseries\color{eclipsekeyword}, % 
underlined bold black keywords identifierstyle=, % nothing happens 
commentstyle=\color{eclipsecomment}, % white comments, if you use 
commentstyle=\color{white}, it doesn't display the PRODID for the VCALENDAR 
stringstyle=\ttfamily, % typewriter type for strings 
showstringspaces=false, % no special string spaces frame=single, % bottom 
of listing gets a rule, use frame=single if you want awhole frame around it 
backgroundcolor=\color{white}, use frame=b for line a the bottom only 
backgroundcolor=\color{white}, tabsize=4, showspaces=false, 
showstringspaces=false}

\lstset{morecomment=[s][\color{eclipsejavadoc}]{/**}{*/}}%,
% morecomment=[s][\color{red}]{/*-}{*/}}

And including the source code.

\lstinputlisting[

caption={CalendarExtractor.java},

label=lst:CalendarExtractor.java]

{source/CalendarExtractor.java}

2. Can someone please tell me if a book is being planned, I'd hate to print 
out the documentation and then come to realize that, say, two months down 
the line a book is available.

3. As you probably guessed I'm new to ConTeXt so if somewould could please 
tell me in what situation you would use each of the following files for, 
It'll clarify alot of things for. In particular what is the "the main 
CONTEXT distribution".

context/current/cont-tmf.zip the main CONTEXT distribution 
context/current/cont-img.zip a few resources for testing functionality 
context/current/cont-fnt.zip font metrics of public fonts 
context/current/cont-ext.zip third party CONTEXT modules 
context/current/cont-win.zip a binary version of the texmfstart script 
context/current/cont-ppc.zip chemical formulas in TEX: PPCHTEX 
context/current/cont-mpd.zip METAPOST to PDF converter 
context/install/cont-bas.zip base TEX distribution 
context/install/justtex.zip minimal CONTEXT distribution (no binaries) 
context/install/mswintex.zip minimal CONTEXT binaries (windows) 
context/install/linuxtex.zip minimal CONTEXT binaries (linux) 
context/install/macosxtex.zip minimal CONTEXT binaries (macosx) 
context/install/mswincontext.zip stand-alone CONTEXTediting environment 
(windows)


Thank you very much

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