Re: Keeping up-to-date under TeXLive

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Sat, 22 Dec 2007, Joel C. Salomon wrote:

> On Dec 21, 2007 9:17 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Do I need to set the TEXMFHOME environment variable?

I had to set TEXMFCNF to /usr/share/texmf/web2c, and LUAINPUTS to 
$HOME/texmf/context/base and $HOME/texmf/scripts/context/lua/

> Also: will downloading linuxtex.zip to the same place give me
> up-to-date luatex, or will it just mess up my installation?

I did not try the binaries from linuxtex.zip.

>> Remake the formats, move the stubs and few programs to the path, and you
>> are done.
>
> Is there a command to remake the pdftex and xetex formats together?
>
> Rather than moving programs, might it be easier to add
> ~/texmf/<whatever>/bin to the PATH?

I was talking about scripts in texmf/scripts/context/stubs (texmfstart.rb, 
texexec.rb, etc.)

>> 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.
>
> Hmm...  will the rsync update work, or do I need to download the zips?

In principle, rsync should work. I did not try that.

Aditya
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