Hello Hans,

Yes, the Linux install fails as well. I have just tried another. The
output of context --make is attached.

During the install the ascii *.lua files in the following directory --
initially from context-linux-64.zip-- are overwritten by what look
like binaries:

/path/to/lmtx/bin:
  total used in directory 3444 available 236814588
  drwx------ 2 rbm49 rbm49    4096 Mar  2  2019 .
  drwx------ 4 rbm49 rbm49    4096 Dec  9 06:59 ..
  -rw------- 1 rbm49 rbm49   16432 Dec  9 06:59 mtx-install.lua
  -rwx------ 1 rbm49 rbm49 2786296 Dec  9 06:59 mtxrun
  -rw------- 1 rbm49 rbm49  696620 Dec  9 06:59 mtxrun.lua

And at the end of the install the following two files also seem to be
binaries (see "no valid format" message in attached log):

/path/to/lmtx/tex/texmf/web2c:
  total used in directory 28 available 236977668
  drwx------ 2 rbm49 rbm49 4096 Dec  9 06:58 .
  drwx------ 6 rbm49 rbm49 4096 Dec  9 06:58 ..
  -rw------- 1 rbm49 rbm49 7500 Dec  9 06:58 texmf.cnf
  -rw------- 1 rbm49 rbm49 8214 Dec  9 06:58 texmfcnf.lua


Best, Richard



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-----Original Message-----
From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: Richard Mahoney | Indica et Buddhica <
r.mahoney@indica-et-buddhica.org>
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] problem with a new installation of LMTX
Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2019 12:30:32 +0100
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On 12/8/2019 8:36 AM, Richard Mahoney | Indica et Buddhica wrote:
> Hello Otared,
> 
> "... get overwritten and are modified for some unknown reasons: in
> particular the two lua files become complete garbage…"
> 
> I found the same today under Gentoo Linux, and the same for the lua
> files under (can't check which as I've deleted the install):
> 
> ~/lmtx/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin
so linux install fails too?

Hans


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