Re: Installation problem (was Updates without rsync)

[Piotr Kopszak <kopszak@gmail.com>]

Why not Emacs :) It's also quite nice for ConTeXt.

P.

2009/6/2  <richard.stephens@converteam.com>:
>
>
>> I wanted to get a clean, up-to-date installation of Context on Windows
>> (without using rsync), so started from scratch as follows:
>>
>> 1. Downloaded
>> http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/install/minimals-snapshot-mswin.zip
>> 2. Unzipped to C:\Tools\context
>> 3. Renamed C:\Tools\context\texmf-context to texmf-context-old
>> 4. Downloaded cont-tmf.zip and unzipped contents to
>> c:\Tools\context\texmf-context
>> 3. From command window, ran:
>>       cd \Tools\context
>>       setuptex      mktexlsr      luatools --generate      luatools
>> --selfupdate      mtxrun   --selfupdate      texexec --make      context
>> --make
>> 4. To generate new pdf, ran:      context testdoc.tex
>>
>> Everything seemed to execute without errors until the last step which
>> returned:
>>
>> MtxRun | loading configuration for C:/Tools/context/texmf/web2c from
>> C:/Tools/context/texmf-cache/luatex-
>>
> cache/context/b7bcb6722e1fe509b85ff004c33e8274/trees/90e2367b37b32bcc25e442581c9e72e2
>
>> MtxRun | run 1: luatex
>> --fmt="C:/Tools/context/texmf-cache/luatex-
>> cache/context/b7bcb6722e1fe509b85ff004c33e8274/formats/cont-en"
>>
>> --lua="C:/Tools/context/texmf-cache/luatex-
>> cache/context/b7bcb6722e1fe509b85ff004c33e8274/formats/cont-en.lua"
>>  "./testdoc.tex"
>> luatex.exe:
>> C:/Tools/context/texmf-cache/luatex-
>> cache/context/b7bcb6722e1fe509b85ff004c33e8274/formats/cont-en.fmt:
>>  No such file or directory
>> MtxRun | fatal error, code: 1
>>
>> Looking at the source directory, a file "testdoc.top" has been created
> but
>> nothing else.
>>
>> Can someone please point me towards a next step?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Richard
>>
>> P.S. I tried copying cont-en.fmt from
>> "C:\Tools\context\texmf-mswin\web2c\luatex\pdftex" to the cache directory
>> but got "Fatal format file error, I'm stymied".
>
> I was trying various things and downloaded the beta version of cont-tmf.zip
> (from http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-2.htm ) instead of the current
> version and it all works, hooray!
> Thank-you, everyone, for your help. I'm so pleased to be able to use MKIV
> now for the first time - it even gives me Helvetica when I ask for it.
> All I've got to do now is get Scite working again :-(
>
> Thanks,
>
> Richard
>
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