From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Keeping up-to-date under TeXLive
Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:17:24 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.0.9999.0712212108050.10153@nqv-yncgbc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7871fcf50712210922i75dbcda9r7aa2f5efe142e941@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Joel C. Salomon wrote:
> My new Ubuntu installation includes TeXLive version 2007-10. Is there
> a way for me to keep the ConTeXt part of this up-to-date with current
> (stable) versions?
I am in the same situation. Ubuntu 7.10, but the context version of the
latest texlive is too old for my needs.
> Considering that I have XeTeX 0.996, do I want to,
> or should I stick with what currently works?
In most cases (except if you want to test mkiv) the current binaries are
ok. So, for pdftex (1.40.3-2.2), metapost (0.993) and xetex (0.996), I
stick with the version provided by ubuntu. So far I have not run into a
bug that was fixed in a higher version. If I do, I will download the
latest binaries.
For me, the more important thing is to have an uptodate context files.
After a bit of trial and error, this is what I settled on.
Create $HOME/texmf. Download justtex.zip, and cont-tmf.zip, cont-fnt.zip
from pragma's website, and unzip them inside $HOME/texmf. Download the
font files from TeX Gyre and unzip then in $HOME/texmf.
Remake the formats, move the stubs and few programs to the path, and you
are done.
The only drawback of this is that you have to update manually. ctxtools
--updatecontext unzip the file in TEXMFLOCAL, and not TEXMFHOME, so it
does not work with this setup.
I used $HOME/texmf rather than TEXMFLOCAL because there are some other
programs that install stuff at TEXMFLOCAL. With the current mechanism, I
can just mv $HOME/texmf to another directory, and go back to the context
that comes with unbuntu.
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-22 2:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-21 17:22 Joel C. Salomon
2007-12-21 17:59 ` luigi scarso
2007-12-21 23:42 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-12-22 2:17 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2007-12-23 3:47 ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-12-23 10:08 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-12-26 0:56 ` Joel C. Salomon
2007-12-26 11:14 ` Mojca Miklavec
2007-12-26 16:12 ` Ciro Soto
2007-12-26 19:14 ` Aditya Mahajan
2007-12-26 19:15 ` Aditya Mahajan
2007-12-23 15:06 ` Aditya Mahajan
2007-12-22 15:05 ` Peter Münster
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