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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.

| Akira Kakuto (from [http://w32tex.org W32TeX])|- align="left"! Windows/CygWin| cygwin| same binaries as mswin|- align="left" style="background-color:#EEEEEE;"! Windows, 32 bit| win32| Alias for mswin

! Windows, 64 bit| win64| |- align="left" style="background-color:#EEEEEE;"! Linux, 32-bit

| Hans Hagen, Mojca Miklavec, Alan Braslau| compiled with glibc 2.3.6Debian 8|- align="left" style="background-color:#EEEEEE;"

| Alan Braslau||- align="left"! Linux, PowerPC| linux-ppc| Piotr Kopszak|Debian 8

! Linux, Arm ARM (low end.)| linux-armelarm| Boris Veytsman| in progressRaspbian 8

! Mac OS XLinux, Intel (32-bit)musl| osxlinuxmusl-intel| Richard Koch, Mojca Miklavec64|Alpine

| Richard Koch, Mojca Miklavec|Mac OS X 10.6

! Mac OS XFreeBSD, PowerPC| osx32-ppcbit| Richard Koch, Mojca Miklavecfreebsd

! Mac OS XFreeBSD, Universal Binaries64-bit| osxfreebsd-universal| Richard Koch, Mojca Miklavecamd64

! FreeBSDOpenBSD 6.4, 32-bit| freebsd| Alan Braslauopenbsd6.4

! FreeBSDOpenBSD 6.4, 64-bit| freebsdopenbsd6.4-amd64| Alan Braslau|

! kFreeBSD| kfreebsdOpenBSD 6.5, 32-i386bit| Alan Braslauopenbsd6.5| FreeBSD + glibc (Debian)*

! kFreeBSDOpenBSD 6.5, 64-bit| kfreebsdopenbsd6.5-amd64| Alan Braslau| FreeBSD + glibc (Debian)*

| Marco Patzer|Solaris 10 on [http://www.opencsw.org/about/ OpenCSW]

*NoteIf you run into problems installing, check the available architectures in the minimal’s [http: we have stopped distributing //minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/ setup folder]!* OpenBSD 6.4 binaries for kfreebsd. However, this system is still supported, and natively-are compiled binaries can be installed from but are missing in the Debian distribution.setup folder ATM (2019-07)

We need volunteers for providing binaries for other platforms. If you want to support a new platform, please write to the [[ConTeXt Mailing Lists]]

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).

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 bleeding edge" and subject to developementdevelopment, 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.

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 formats unless you set the group permissions appropriately.For example:

Add the OSOFONTDIR OSFONTDIR into ./tex/setuptex. Go to under the line: