From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/37185 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Fatal format file error; I'm stymied Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 09:11:03 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <472ADD28.8090106@wxs.nl> 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 1194012693 5114 80.91.229.12 (2 Nov 2007 14:11:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 14:11:33 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Norbert Preining To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Nov 02 15:11:36 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 1InxFH-0005G0-GG for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 02 Nov 2007 15:11:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73B401FB1D; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:11:25 +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 13794-05-19; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:11:18 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2FDB1FACB; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:11:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99ECC1FA4A for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:11:13 +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 13794-05-18 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:11:07 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.82]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BE391FAF5 for ; Fri, 2 Nov 2007 15:11:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: FROM aditya.annarb01.mi.comcast.net (c-68-40-40-75.hsd1.mi.comcast.net [68.40.40.75]) BY hellskitchen.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 472B2FF6.33B1A.24295 ; 2 Nov 2007 10:11:03 -0400 In-Reply-To: <472ADD28.8090106@wxs.nl> 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:37185 Archived-At: On Fri, 2 Nov 2007, Hans Hagen wrote: > Ernesto Schirmacher wrote: >> After many years as a LaTeX user I'm attempting to switch over to ConTeXt. >> >> I recently upgraded my operating system to Ubuntu 7.10 (on an AMD64 machine) and got the TeXLive and ConTeXt packages from the Ubuntu repositories. I tried compiling a very simple document: >> >> \starttext >> >> Hello this is \ConTeXt. >> >> \stoptext >> >> using the command: texexec simple.tex and got the following output on my terminal: >> >> TeXExec | processing document 'simple.tex' >> TeXExec | no ctx file found >> TeXExec | tex processing method: context >> TeXExec | TeX run 1 >> TeXExec | writing option file simple.top >> TeXExec | using randomseed 898 >> TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex >> TeXExec | tex format: cont-en >> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) >> %$-line parsing enabled. >> (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx) >> ---! cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex >> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied) >> TeXExec | runtime: 0.177424 >> >> >> Clearly something is not working properly and I suspect the incompatibility between >> This is pdfTeXk... >> and >> ---! cont-en.fmt was written by pdfetex >> is the source of all trouble here. >> >> Could someone please point me in the right direction to resolve this? > > pdfetex is obsolete now; there should only be a pdftex binary > > since ubunto is based on debian i assume that they use the same > packages, so i cc to norbert I can confirm that context works fine on ubuntu 7.10 (amd 64). I recently installed it on my laptop (fresh install of ubuntu), and followed the instructions on the wiki, and it worked. So, the ubuntu repository is ok. I cannot help with the problem since I am still trying to figure out the nitty gritty of linux. 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________