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The '''ConTeXt suite''' is a complete, up-to-date ConTeXt distribution which can be upgraded efficiently. It can be used to install either the stable or the beta version of ConTeXt. It can also be used in parallel with existing TeX installations such as MikTeX, TeXLive, or older minimal installation. It is aimed towards ConTeXt users, so it does not include LaTeX specific packages and binaries.
{{Note note | ConTeXt develops at a fast pace, and sometimes beta releases have serious bugs. ConTeXt suite allows you to test the latest ConTeXt release without having to worry if an upgrade will mess an critical project. You can have two (or multiple) parallel ConTeXt suites, and freeze one for your critical projects, and use the other one for experimenting.}}
ConTeXt is also included in TeXlive. The ConTeXt suite is updated continuously, whereas ConTeXt in TeXlive is updated less often. In particular, <code>luatex</code> and <code>metapost</code> are under active development and their binaries are updated frequently. ConTeXt follows these developments, indeed often drives development. As the binaries included in the TeXlive distribution are only updated yearly, ConTeXt on TeXlive will necessarily be less current than the ConTeXt suite. (ConTeXt on TeXlive can be kept somewhat more current using the http://tlcontrib.metatex.org repository.) The ConTeXt suite is self-contained and can happily coexist alongside another installed TeX distribution.
=== GUI Installer ===
{{Notenote|The installer seems to have been broken since autumn 2010 and still is in November 2011, at least in some versions of Windows, so proceed at your own risk.}}
There is also a [http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-installer/ContextMinimalInstall.exe GUI installer] made by Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky. Download and run the installer and it will ask you where to install the minimals, which distribution to use (stable or beta) and whether or not you want to make formats.
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code>$HOME/context
code>c:\Temp
