From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/38209 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Keeping up-to-date under TeXLive Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2007 21:17:24 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <7871fcf50712210922i75dbcda9r7aa2f5efe142e941@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1198292997 15366 80.91.229.12 (22 Dec 2007 03:09:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:09:57 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Dec 22 04:10:09 2007 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 lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J5ukb-0004lL-Qu for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 04:10:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D17311FC8E; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:57:42 +0100 (CET) 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 25701-07-7; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:55:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8426C1FA4A; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:31:01 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39AED1FC43 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:26:35 +0100 (CET) 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 07684-04 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:24:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from skycaptain.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.93.160]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A23521FC07 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:17:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: FROM adi-laptop.local (c-68-40-40-75.hsd1.mi.comcast.net [68.40.40.75]) BY skycaptain.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 476C73B4.D8772.30231 ; 21 Dec 2007 21:17:25 -0500 X-X-Sender: adityam@adi-laptop In-Reply-To: <7871fcf50712210922i75dbcda9r7aa2f5efe142e941@mail.gmail.com> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 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:38209 Archived-At: 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________