{{note|Releases of Debian packages (or any other linux packages distribution for that matter) usually contain way too old TeX distributions for ConTeXt MKIV (but should work fine for MKII). If you want to live on bleeding edge, consider using the packages from Debian/unstable, [[ConTeXt MinimalsStandalone]] instead , or at least install the latest version of [[TeX Live]] with [[TLContrib]] manually.}}
== Install the ConTeXt packages ==
Norbert Preining has produced reliable, complete The status of ConTeXt packages for in Debian/unstable is currently up to date with TeX Live 2021, and includes all the necessary bits and pieces, plus the modules shipped in TeX Live.
If you are running Debian sid or later, then the <code>context</code> package should already be visible (and the <code>context-nonfree</code> and <code>context-doc-nonfreemodules</code> packages are in the nonfree repository)should already be visible. then Then do
* The final version in debian squeeze bullseye (aka debian stable 611.02) is 20092020.03.1110.2620200331-21* In ''unstable'' is a more recent versionthat is from the TeX Live 2021
2. run as root(the version number might have increased a bit) dpkg --install context_2011context_2021.03.05.18.2011062620220211-1_all.deb
mtxrun --generate
3. run as user
mtxrun --generate
Step 2. is currently still necessary, but soon an update of tex-common will run mtxrun --generate automatically when packages have changed (like mktexlsr), and there will be no need to run this anymore.
Step 3. needs to be done only when you have files in TEXMFHOME or you change things there.