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The '''ConTeXt suite''' is a complete, up-to-date ConTeXt distribution that can be upgraded efficiently. It can also be used in parallel with existing TeX installations such as MikTeX, TeXLive, and so forth. The suite does not include LaTeX packages and binaries.
Sometimes ConTeXt beta releases have issues. The ConTeXt suite allows you to test the latest ConTeXt release without worrying whether upgrading will corrupt a critical project. Multiple ConTeXt suite installations are possible. This allows, for example, a stable version and a beta version to run in parallel on the same computer.
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.
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*Note: we have stopped distributing binaries for kfreebsd. However, this system is still supported, and natively-compiled binaries can be installed from the Debian distribution.
We need volunteers for providing binaries for other platforms. If you want to support a platform, please write to [[ConTeXt Mailing Lists]]
The following programs are not required for running ConTeXt, but their installation adds additional functionality.
* curl : for including remote content
* ghostscript : for converting PostScript images to PDF
* graphicsmagick (convert) : for converting GIF and TIFF images
* inkscape : for converting SVG and compressed SVG
* mupdf (mudraw) : for converting PDF to PNG (used for ePub covers)
* pstoedit : for converting PostScript to MetaPost outlines
* zint : for providing barcodes
* zip or 7zip : for EPUB generation
== Disc space required ==
ConTeXt macro files are small (less than 10MB), but the suite comes with various free fonts which considerably increase the size of the distribution to around 200MB).
== Multiple instances of the installation ==
Please note from the start that we recommend installing a complete ConTeXt installation for each project in a production environment. The installation tree is portable (see Moving the Installation Around, below) and can be located under the project's own directory. The advantage is to allow each project to use an instance of ConTeXt that is adapted to its coding and that only gets updated purposely. Since the ConTeXt Standalone is "bleading edge" and subject to developement, certain details in commands, syntax or rendering may evolve slightly. Having a vintage ConTeXt tree for each production project insures that one can come back years later and produce identical results.
So as not to get carried away under this approach, one can eventually group projects by vintage, period or season, according to cycles of productivity.
== Standalone ==
* on MacOS X you can use <code>/Applications/ConTeXt</code>
Note that, at present, while ''using'' MkIV, you need to have write permissions for the <code>$TEXMFCACHE</code> directory. This effectively means that only one user will be able to generate the formatsunless you set the group permissions appropriately.For example: * <code>CONTEXT_HOME=/opt/context</code>* <code>TEXMFCACHE=$CONTEXT_HOME/tex/texmf-cache</code>* <code>chmod -R g+w $TEXMFCACHE</code>
<pre>
mkdir context
cd context
sh ./first-setup.sh --modules=all
# change ownership to real rather than effective id
chown -R `id -r -u`:`id -r -g` .
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===Font Directory===
Add the OSOFONTDIR OSFONTDIR into ./tex/setuptex. Go to under the line:
# TODO: we could set OSFONTDIR on Mac for example
For more information: [[Fonts in LuaTeX]]
== Apache webserver installation ==
Another common usecase is invoking ConTeXt from within a web application. Because web directories are often self-contained, and in the case of Apache under Ubuntu, ownership of the directory and its contents are assigned to a user and group without a login shell, e.g., <code>www-data:www-data</code> this prevents a web application from invoking a ConTeXt installation done using either the single-user or system-wide method listed above.
In this case the solution is to install ConTeXt within the website tree, and ideally in the public sub-tree. The public sub-tree is commonly the home directory for the application and relative pathnames are resolved as if immediately below it.
For example, in the case of the PHP web framework Laravel, ConTeXt can be installed alongside other assets in the <path-to-document-root>/public/context directory:
<pre>
cd <path-to-document-root>/public
mkdir context
cd context
wget http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/first-setup.sh
# Install the latest beta of ConTeXt
# This takes a long time, so go have a coffee
# Flags you can add to the first-setup.sh call:
# --modules=all # Install all third-party modules
# --context=current # Install latest stable version
# --engine=luatex # Install only MkIV, leave out MkII
# # This shrinks the install from 270 MB to 200 MB
sh ./first-setup.sh --modules=all
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Once installed, you need to ensure that the permissions are correct for Apache to be able to access it (you will either need <code>sudo</code> privileges or root access):
<pre>
$ cd <path-to-document-root>/public
$ sudo chmod -R www-data:www-data context
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Now as part of your application's invocation of ConTeXt, you will need to set up the shell environment. This is easily done by creating a simple BASH shell script, also to be installed in the public part of the document tree:
<pre>
#!/usr/bin/env bash
#
# proccontext.sh
#
# To be installed in <path-to-document-root>/public/bin
. <path-to-document-root>/public/context/tex/setuptex <path-to-document-root>/public/context/tex
cd tex/spool
context $1 > /tmp/context_run.log
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Here the dynamically generated ConTeXt source file is expected to be found in the <code><path-to-document-root>/tex/spool</code> directory.
Now within your application, you can invoke this shell script (in this case using PHP):
<pre>
$cmd = "bin/proccontext.sh $input_filename";
$last_line = system($cmd, $ret_val);
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And the output will once again be found in <code><path-to-document-root>/tex/spool</code>.
==Arch Linux==
There’s a [httphttps://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30398 /context-minimals-git PKGBUILD] in
the AUR, provided by Aditya [https://github.com/adityam/context-pkgbuild].
Install it using your favorite AUR frontend, e.g.
== Updating ==
If you used the command line method, just run <code>first-setup.bat</code> again to update the suite. If you have third party modules installed, you should use first-setup.bat --keepto upgrade. See [[ConTeXt_Standalone#Installing_third_party_modules| Installing third party modules]] for details.
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