OpenBSD installation

this page tries to explain how to get the latest ConTeXt up and running on OpenBSD 3.9 (but should work on older systems also). these instructions assume that the $PKG_PATH is working.

install gmake

$ sudo pkg_add gmake

install teTeX 3.0

$ sudo pkg_add teTex_base-3.0p3

this adds all the dependencies with newer pkg tools. if using older ones, add the other packages manually (teTeX_texmf, teTeX_base-fmt).

strictly speaking, one doesn't need X11 for using teTeX, in this case install the *-no_x11 packages.

update pdftex

get the latest version from from [sarovar].

$ tar xvzf pdftex-1.30.6.tgz
$ cd pdftex-1.30.6

apply the following diff:

--- build.sh.orig       Mon Feb 27 21:45:29 2006
+++ build.sh    Mon Feb 27 23:32:31 2006
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-#! /usr/bin/env bash
+#!/bin/sh
 # $Id$
 # builds new pdftex binaries
-MAKE=make
+MAKE=gmake
 STRIP=strip
 # this deletes all previous builds.
 # comment out the rm and mkdir if you want to keep them (and uncomment and

run the build:

$ sh ./build.sh

when finished, replace the binaries:

$ sudo mv build/texk/web2c/pdfetex which pdfetex
$ sudo mv build/texk/web2c/pdfetex.pool kpsewhich pdfetex.pool
$ sudo fmtutil-sys --all

Install a MetaPost update

The included MetaPost in teTeX is a bit outdated.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
 # mkdir -p /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/metapost/base
 # cp texmf/metapost/base/* /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/metapost/base
 # cd build/texk/web2c
 # cp -f mpost dvitomp mpware/dmp mpware/mpto mpware/newer mpware/makempx \
   /usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu
 # cp -f mp.pool /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c
 # texhash
 # fmtutil-sys --byfmt mpost

Install a Latin Modern font update

The Latin Modern fonts are still in development, so teTeX has a hard time catching up. To get a stable system, you have to manually download the [Latin Modern distribution] from ctan and install the package according to the[instructions in the FAQ].

The ConTeXt-specific support files are included in Cont-tmf.zip, so it is just a matter of installing the actual font files.

Install the latest ConTeXt

Fetch the current distro from Pragma ADE: [cont-tmf.zip] [mirror1] [mirror2]

Fix texmf.cnf

Now first you have to fix texmf.cnf as supplied with teTeX:

 # vi /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf 

You have to add an engine path to the TEXFORMATS line, so that it reads:

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

While at it, you probably want to set

 shell_escape = t

if it isn't already.

Cleanup fmtutil

Optionally, you can remove ConTeXt support from teTeX's configuration, because ConTeXt does not use fmtutil.

Using

 # fmtutil-sys --edit

you can comment out the lines for metafun,cont-en, and mptopdf

And you can use

 # cd /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var/web2c && rm -f cont-en.* metafun.* mptopdf.*

to remove the old (fmtutil-generated) formats.

Install the zip archive

Now you have to execute the following series of commands (I assume you downloaded the archive file to /tmp. If you used another location, you have to change the unzip command):

 # cd /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-local/
 # unzip -o /tmp/cont-tmf.zip
 # texexec --make --all

In teTeX 3.0, formats will end up in a local directory only accessible to the user that generated them, so you have to copy the newly generated formats in the global location to make them useful for other people than 'root'.

The last lines of the texexecs output will look like this:

used engineformatpath : /root/.texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex/


           TeX binary : pdfetex
            format(s) : en nl metafun mptopdf


       total run time : 35 seconds

The top line indirectly tells you where the directories are where texexec has stored the local formats that need copying. With the output above, the final two commands to run are:

 # cp -a /root/.texmf-var/web2c/* /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf-var/web2c
 # texhash

If the engineformatpath does not start with /root/.texmf-var/web2c/, you have to replace the first path with the right one. You do that by removing the pdfetex/ suffix from the 'used engineformatpath'.

Finished!

That should do it! End result 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 : pdfeTeX, 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5)
              context : ver: 2005.11.30
              cont-en : ver: 2005.11.30  fmt: 2005.11.30  mes: english

please note, that after the successful installation of these updates, the MD5 checksums obviously will not match the ones of the installed ones, therefore except special cases when deleting/updating these packages.