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Install teTeX 3.0

Lucky Debian users can install official packages from testing or from unstable.

Just do:

 # apt-get install tetex-bin tetex-extra

You may verify it with dpkg -l tetex-bin tetex-extra, it should show something like

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  tetex-bin      3.0-14         The teTeX binary files
ii  tetex-extra    3.0-14         Additional library files of teTeX

Install a pdfTeX update

Since the Debian tetex-bin package already contains a pdftex program, this update is optional and ConTeXt should work even if the release of pdftex provided by tetex-bin is a little bit old.

Fetch the 1.30.6 release (tar or zip archive) from [sarovar].

From within the directory where you downloaded the archive file, execute the following series of commands:

 # unzip pdftex-1.30.6.zip
 # cd pdftex-1.30.6

Edit the build.sh file and add a valid datadir option:

 ...
 ../src/configure \
             --datadir=/usr/share \
             --without-bibtex8   \
 ...

Then run build.sh:

 # sh ./build.sh

If the build went OK, then the last four lines of terminal output are the actual binaries and pool files for pdftex and pdfetex. These have to replace their existing counterparts in the teTeX installation.

Note: The next commands assume that which pdfetex can actually find the executables from teTeX. If it doesn't work, then your PATH does not include the teTeX binaries directory yet, and you should fix that first. Likewise for kpsewhich pdfetex.pool

 # cp -f build/texk/web2c/pdfetex which pdfetex
 # cp -f build/texk/web2c/pdfetex.pool kpsewhich pdfetex.pool
 # fmtutil-sys --all

Install a MetaPost update

Update MetaPost is strongly recommended!

The included MetaPost in teTeX is a bit outdated. If you want, you can fetch and install the latest MetaPost from sarovar. The current release is 0.901. Just download the source tarball from the [project page]

From the directory where you downloaded the archive file, execute the following series of commands:

 # tar xjf metapost-0.901.tar.bz2
 # cd metapost-0.901
 # ./Build
 # cp texmf/metapost/base/* /usr/share/texmf-tetex/metapost/base
 # cd build/texk/web2c
 # cp -f mpost dvitomp mpware/dmp mpware/mpto mpware/newer mpware/makempx \
   /usr/bin
 # cp -f mp.pool /usr/share/texmf/web2c
 # texhash
 # fmtutil-sys --byfmt mpost

Install a Latin Modern font update

Under Debian, root as just to ask :

 # apt-get install lmodern pts-tetex-cm-super

The configuration/update is handled by apt-get


On newer versions you do

 # apt-get install lmodern cm-super

Install the latest ConTeXt

Fetch the current distro from Pragma ADE: [cont-tmf.zip]

I would advise installing context in ~/texmf (~ refers to the current user home directory), rather than as the system default for every user on the machine. Once you're happy that it works for you, you could install it system-wide (TODO: need to give those instructions for Debian...).

 mkdir texmf
 cd texmf
 wget http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/current/cont-tmf.zip
 unzip cont-tmf.zip
 texexec --make

The Debian tetex-3.0 package (and probably the vanilla tetex-3.0) in combination with texexec puts user-generated format files in ~/.texmf-var/web2c/engine where engine is typically pdfetex. If you don't have such a directory, and you are using the default tetex configuration, tell the mailing list so that this installation information can be corrected!

Now you have two problems to correct: (1) there may be other, probably older context formats hanging around in ~/.texmf-var/web2c/ (i.e. above where texexec put the new ones), and the path searching code may find the older ones instead of the newer ones; (2) the path searching code may not find the newer ones at all, because it doesn't search subdirectories of web2c/ (and you don't want it to automatically search all subdirectories, because there may be several different engines, e.g. pdfetex, xetex, etc. each with its own set of formats, and you want it to find the correct set, not just the first set it happens to run across).

So, to take care of problem 1, which is the older context formats, you need delete them and stop fmtutil from making more of them. A likely location for them is ~/.texmf-var/web2c/ (i.e. not in a subdirectory of it).

When I ran texexec, it made cont-en.fmt, cont-nl.fmt, and mptopdf.fmt in ~/.texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex/ and they were shadowed by the older ones: ~/.texmf-var/web2c/cont-en.fmt, etc. So I deleted the older ones. If you can't find them, use kpsewhich cont-en.fmt (and similarly for the other formats). Run the kpsewhich from a 'typical' directory (e.g. your home directory), rather than from ~/.texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex/ (adjust for your engine), otherwise it will find the newly created formats before any others.

Now part 1b: stop fmtutil making context-related formats (because it puts them in the wrong place, i.e. it doesn't use the engine information). As root:

 emacs -nw /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf

Or choose your favorite editor. Comment out (with a #!) the lines for mptopdf, cont-en, and any other cont-* formats not already commented out. Now generate a new system-wide configuration file (which in the default Debian (?) tetex-3.0 setup is in /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf):

 update-fmtutil

Now to fix problem 2: the path searching code doesn't look in subdirectories of web2c/ for formats. As mentioned above, you don't want it to blindly look in all of the subdirectories. Instead it should look in the subdirectory according to the engine. To do this, edit the TEXFORMATS line in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/45TeXinputs.cnf to have the engine-searching magic:

 TEXFORMATS = .;$TEXMF/web2c/{$engine,}
 

Now generate a new texmf.cnf with (still as root):

 update-texmf

That should generate a new /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf, which is symlinked from /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf. With luck, you are done. In the next step you will check whether everything is working by running texexec --version.

Finished!

That should do it! The output of texexec --version is hopefully like this:

TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
              texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005
              texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2004
                  tex : pdfeTeXk, 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
              context : ver: 2005.10.27
              cont-en : ver: 2005.10.27  fmt: 2005.11.1  mes: english

See also the Debian TeXlive install page.