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[Robin Cook <rcook AT wyrms.net>]

texlive is failing during the install for me with the below error....
This is the newest version it git repository.

make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/texlive-20110705-source/texk'
`/usr/bin/mf-nowin' -> `mf'
/usr/src/texlive-20110705-source/old.binaries/usr/bin/fmtutil: line 362: 
/texconfig/tcfmgr: No such file or directory
fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.

CuZnDragon


On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 20:43 -0300, Ismael Luceno wrote:
> El Sat, 10 Sep 2011 08:09:45 +0900
> flux <flux AT sourcemage.org> escribió:
> > Sukneet Basuta (sukneet AT gmail.com) wrote [11.09.10 02:49]:
> > > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 5:12 AM, flux <flux AT sourcemage.org> wrote:
> > > > Did you try ConTeXt MkII, or only MkIV? Note that MkIV is
> > > > LuaTeX-specific and won't work with other TeX engines, while MkII
> > > > is older but should work fine with pdftex, xetex, etc.
> > > >
> > > 
> > > MkII seems to rely on luatex as well. I know that seems odd, but
> > > running texexec just gives me "/usr/bin/env: texlua: No such file or
> > > directory." I'm guess it requires luatex to start things.
> > 
> > There are options to texexec for using different tex engines. Perhaps
> > they changed the default tex engine from pdftex to luatex. Can you try
> > running it with --pdftex or --xetex (or whatever the options are if
> > they have changed, man texexec should tell you). Also, it's possible
> > that the script to run ConTeXt (even for MkII) changed to "context"
> > rather than "texexec" (though I have doubts for this).
> 
> I tried that and --engine too, with identical results. Maybe MkII has
> been deprecated...
> 
> > Does luatex actually get installed by texlive? If so, perhaps we can
> > hunt down whatever config value is causing ConTeXt to not find it. If
> > it's not being installed, perhaps we can fix INSTALL to make it
> > install it (perhaps optionally so via CONFIGURE?).
> 
> No, it's not being installed. Perhaps we need to pass some option to
> the configure script.
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