Re: mtxrun

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Fri, 14 Feb 2020, Luca Donetti wrote:

>>> So I run explicitly the second one:
>>>   ~/context-lmtx/bin/mtxrun --generate
>>> but I got the same error.
>>
>> This is the wrong binary. As Hans said (and also what I wrote in my
>> message) is that you have to run the one in
>> ~/context-lmtx/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin/
>>
>>
>
>
>> This shows that the wrong binary is being used. You are using the binary
>> in /home/sam/context-lmtx/bin when you should use
>> /home/sam/context-lmtx/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin.
>>
>>
> I ran into a similar problem in the past because the installation script
> install.sh says the following, among other things:
> "If you want to run ConTeXt everywhere, you need to adapt the path, like:
>
>  [lmtx path]/bin:[lmtx path]/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin:[the rest of my path]"
>
> Doing as suggested, when mtxrun is launched the first binary is used
> because  [lmtx path]/bin comes first in the PATH. My question is then how
> do you usually run mtxrun:
> 1) always writing the full path of the correct executable,
> 2) avoid putting [lmtx path]/bin in PATH,
> 3) putting [lmtx path]/bin _after_ [lmtx path]/tex/texmf-linux-64/bin in
> the PATH
>
> I'm asking here because option 1 is correct but not very handy, while 2)
> and 3) are different from what the installer says and they seemed to give
> other problems when I tried them.

I always follow 2. I don't think that [lmtx path]/bin should ever be in 
the PATH except when updating the installation.

Aditya
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