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{{note|Debian packages (or any other linux packages 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 [[ConTeXt Minimals]] instead or at least install the latest version of [[TeX Live]] with [[TLContrib]] manually.}}
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== Install the ConTeXt packages ==
 
== Install the ConTeXt packages ==
  

Revision as of 07:47, 24 June 2011


NOTE: Debian packages (or any other linux packages 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 ConTeXt Minimals instead or at least install the latest version of TeX Live with TLContrib manually.

Install the ConTeXt packages

Norbert Preining has produced reliable, complete ConTeXt packages for Debian.

If you are running Debian sid or later, then the context package should already be visible (and the context-nonfree and context-doc-nonfree packages are in the nonfree repository). then do

aptitude update
aptitude install context context-nonfree context-doc-nonfree


install latest experimental context .deb package

1. Download the .deb http://packages.debian.org/experimental/all/context/download

2. run as root

dpkg -i context_2010.07.30-1_all.deb

3. run as user

mtxrun --generate

You have now a system wide context-installation!

See also

the Debian TeXlive install page.