Installation

Linux Installation

Distribution based TeX Installation with Bleeding Edge ConTeXt

Distribution based TeX installations usually update ConTeXt one to four times a year. ConTeXt beta versions are usually released one to four times a week. So, ConTeXt is usually somewhat out of date in most distributions. For most uses, the previous stable version is OK, but if you want to use a new feature, you will have to get an up to date ConTeXt. It is possible to manually update a distribution based ConTeXt installation, but you really need to know you distributions packaging scheme, and the TeX installation structure to it correctly. So, manually updating a distrbution based ConTeXt installation is not recommended. Instead, you should use ConTeXt Minimals. They can be installed in parallel to the distribution based TeX installation and do not interfere with it. So you can use your distribution's TeX installation for plain TeX and LaTeX, and use the minimals for ConTeXt. For details see

• ConTeXt Minimals

Local TeX distribution with Stable ConTeXt

If your distribution does not provide an up to date TeX installation, you can install TeX-live which provides comprehensive coverage of TeX engines (tex, pdftex, xetex, luatex), TeX macro packages (plain TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt) and TeX fonts. For more details see

• TeX-live installation
• Running Mark IV in TeXLive 2008