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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.

For Mac installation see also [http=== (MacOS X) Using the Command line://wikiTerminal.contextgardenapp === If you do not what a command tool is, do not worry.net/Mac_Installation Mac installation page]It is simply a program in which commands are entered as text and then executed. The needed Terminal.app can be found in the Utilities-folder of the Applications-Folder. Once you have started Terminal, all you have to do is enter a command and press the RETURN-key and the command will be executed.

Select a folder where you want to install ConTeXt. We recommend that you can use your <code>$HOME/context</code> directory. Create this folder. Then download and place it in <code>$HOME/context</code> directory. Open a terminal, then:...

# --context=current latest # Install latest stable version

A system wide installation is '''only''' recommended for experienced users who . You will need administrator rights on the Mac as only administrators are comfortable with allowed to install programs in the command line. Only the location of installing ConTeXt is different for a system wide installationApplications folder, or root (sudo) privileges on other unix-like systems.

# Fetch the install script(use rsync on the mac, see above)

# --context=current latest # Install latest stable version

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

Another common usecase use case 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.

# --context=current latest # Install latest stable version

Another option is to add {{code|/installation-dir/tex/texmf-<platform>/bin}} to the {{code|$PATH}} that the editor searches. The details vary depending on the editor. See [[Text Editors]] for instructions on integrating ConTeXt with various editors.  For information about configuring [http://smultron.sourceforge.net/ Smultron] and [http://www.uoregon.edu/~koch/texshop/obtaining.html TeXShop] (which are popular TeX editors on Mac) see [[ConTeXt Standalone/Mac Installation]]. 

first-setup.bat --context=currentlatest

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