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<font color="red"><b>Warning</b></font>: the repositories have been changed on January 17th. Please update <code>/etc/apt/sources.list</code> appropriately. == Quickstart for the impatient == (all done as root) If you have the tetex packages, get rid {{note|Releases of them:  apt-get --purge remove tetex-{extra,doc,bin,base} If you are running Debian unstable (a.k.a. sidor any other distribution for that matter), then the <code>context</code> package should already be visible (and the <code>context-nonfree</code> and <code>context-doc-nonfree</code> packages are in the nonfree repository). If you are not running unstable, simply add these lines to your <tt>/etc/apt/sources.list</tt>:  <nowiki> # for texlive deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/usually contain way too old TeX/ tl2007/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ src/ # distributions for lmodern deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ lmodern/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ lmodern/ # for context deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ context/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ context/ </nowiki> It ConTeXt MKIV (but should work with ''etch'' as well (''etch'' is the current stable release, as of May 2007fine for MKII), both on intel and ppc platform. With either distribution, now install the packages:  apt-get update apt-get install cm-super texlive-fonts-recommended context context-nonfree context-doc-nonfree The texlive and lmodern packages will be installed automatically by the above line.Check that If you're now using the new version of ConTeXt:  ctxtools --contextversion Read on for more details of the installation, if you are curious. <b>Warning</b>: The next update of these packages will probably ''not'' work with ''etch'' because ''etch'' has a too-old version of libpoppler-dev (0.4 instead of 0.5). == Use TeXLive packages == The context packages depend want to live on [http://www.tug.org/texlive TeXLive]bleeding edge, so if you are consider using the Debian teTeX packages (e.g. see whether <tt>tetex-base</tt> is installed by doing <code>dpkg -l tetex-base</code>), it's time to change to TeXLive. You'll have to do so eventually since teTeX 3.0 will be the last upstream release of teTeX. If not now, when? If you are switching from teTeX, it's important to <b>purge<Debian/b>unstable, not just remove the <tt>tetex-*</tt> packages before installing the TeXLive packages. Otherwise the teTeX configuration files, including those in <tt>/etc/texmf/texmf.d/</tt> and <tt>/etc/texmf/fmt.d/</tt>, will haunt the system like a ghost. To purge:  apt-get --purge remove tetex-{extra,doc,bin,base} The full directions for using TeXLive are at http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html or[[Debian TeXlive installConTeXt Standalone]], though if you are brave you can just try:  apt-get update && apt-get install texlive Once you've installed the basic packages, you'll need a few extras:  apt-get install lmodern cm-super texlive-fonts-recommended == Check for shadowing formats and macros == These installation instructions describe a system-wide install. But individual users may have followed the old directions on this page and (sorry!) made a per-user ConTeXt installation; or as root you may have done a system-wide install in, for example, <tt>/usr/local/share/texmf</tt> or other directory that shadows <tt>/usr/share/texmf</tt>. In either case, the system-wide at least install from the packages won't be seen.  If individual users prefer to shadow the system-wide install and to run their downloaded versions, that's fine. But if they want to use the system-wide install (recommended except for those who are testing Hans's latest versions...), then there are two issues. The first issue is old format files. If a user has format files in <tt>~/.texmf-var/web2c/<i>engine</i></tt> where <i>engine</i> is typically <tt>pdfetex</tt>, then these will shadow the ones installed by the context package. So the user should delete the ConTeXt-related ones, such as <tt>cont-*.fmt</tt>, <tt>mptopdf.fmt</tt>, and <tt>metafun.mem</tt>. To find them, the user can do:  kpsewhich cont-en.fmt or kpsewhich -engine pdfetex cont-en.fmt (and similarly for the other formats). Run it from a 'typical' directory (e.g. <tt>~</tt>), rather than from <tt>~/.texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex/</tt> (adjust for your engine), otherwise it will find the newly created formats before any others even if they are not shadowing anything else. The second issue is the ConTeXt macros. If a user has installed them a directory that shadows <tt>/usr/share/texmf</tt>, then they will be found rather than the system-wide ones. So move the shadowing context installations out version of the way. The user can check [[TeX Live]] with  kpsewhich cont-new.tex and make sure that it's not finding any (until you do the system-wide install, of course)[[TLContrib]] manually.}}

Norbert Preining has produced reliable, complete The status of ConTeXt packages for in Debian/unstable is currently up to date with the soon to be released TeX Live 2011, and they use very recent versions of ConTeXt (as of this update, which is 2008.10.11includes all the necessary bits and pieces, plus the latest package has the 2008.05.21 version of ConTeXt). Here's how to use themmodules shipped in TeX Live.

If you are running Debian unstable (a.k.a. sid)or later, then the <code>context</code> package and <code>context-modules</code> packages should already be visible (and the <code>context-nonfree</code> and <code>context-doc-nonfree</code> packages are in the nonfree repository). If you are not running unstable, simply add these lines to your <tt>/etc/apt/sources.list</tt>:Then do

<nowiki>aptitude update # for texlive deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ tl2007/ debaptitude install context context-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ tl2007/ modules # for lmodernoptional deb aptitude install [http://peoplepackages.debian.org/~preiningexperimental/TeXall/ lmoderncontext/ debdownload context-src nonfree] [http://peoplepackages.debian.org/~preining/TeXsid/ lmodern/ # for context deb http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ -doc-nonfree context/ deb-src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ context/</nowiki>doc-nonfree]

apt-get update apt-get install === Install latest unstable context context-nonfree context-doc-nonfree.deb package ===

and apt will download and install <tt>unstable</tt> means ''(mature) development'', the latest ConTeXt packagesversion number may changes.The software is ''stable''

Additionally, in particular if you intend on using mkiv (luatex) you may want to install 1. Download the textwo .deb-gyre package (not yet in s http://packages.debian.org/unstable as the license situation is unclear)/all/context/downloadhttp://packages.debian. Add these lines to your <tt>org/etcunstable/aptall/sources.list<context-modules/tt>:download

<nowiki>2. run as root (the version number might have increased a bit) # for texdpkg --gyre deb http://peopleinstall context_2011.05.debian18.org/~preining/TeX/ tex20110627-gyre/1_all.deb debmtxrun -src http://people.debian.org/~preining/TeX/ tex-gyre/ </nowiki>generate

aptStep 2. is currently still necessary, but soon an update of tex-get update aptcommon will run mtxrun -get install tex-gyregenerate automatically when packages have changed (like mktexlsr), and there will be no need to run this anymore.

If Step 3. needs to be done only when you don't like the warnings about the GPG key, do this as yourself (if have files in TEXMFHOME or you are happy to trust the chain of trust; insert usual signing-key disclaimers here):change things there.

gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 0x09C5B094 gpg --export --armor 0x09C5B094 | sudo apt-key add You have now a system wide context-installation!

[<tt>0x09C5B094</tt> was the key listed in one of Norbert Preining mail signatures. The <code>sudo</code> adds the key to apt's key list.] == Finished! See also == That should do it! The output of <code>ctxtools --contextversion</code> is hopefully like this: <code> CtxTools | context version: 2008.05.21 15:21 (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/context.tex) CtxTools | context version: 2008.05.21 15:21 (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex)</code> The long path to <tt>context.tex</tt> and <tt>cont-new.tex</tt> show where the system thinks the context macros are installed. Make sure your installation is finding those versions! == Postscript: Mark IV ==(README.MarkIV) Mark IV is the name of the LuaTeX-aware part of ConTeXt; that is, when you use ConTeXt over the LuaTeX engine instead of PDFTeX or XeTeX. You run it with <code>texexec --lua</code>.  Currently the integration of Mark IV into Debian is not completely done, especially because the details are currently worked out (see the dev-context mailing list).

If you want to start using Mark IV the following the following few points should get you started:  1) Right versions: luatex >= 0.20.2 context >= 2007.12.20 2) environment variables and luatex-cache. Mark IV ships its own implementation of file searching and doesn't use the ls-R databases, but luatex-cache. You have to tell luatools where to find texmf.cnf, and then generate the cache:<code> export TEXMFCNF=/usr/share/texmf/web2c luatools --generate --verbose </code>This will generate the luatex-cache in $HOME. If you want to put it somewhere else set (and export) the TEXMFCACHE variable: <code> export TEXMFCACHE=/tmp</code> 3) Generate a Mark IV format. This is not integrated into the usual format building process, and probably will need some time to be worked out completely as the current fmtutil cannot cope with Mark IV formats. Call<code> luatools --ini --compile cont-en</code> 4) Now you can try some simple document like (thanks to Arthur Reutenauer)<code> \starttext \ctxlua{a = 1.5 ; b = 1.8 ; c = a*b ; tex.print(c) ;} % or the equivalent: \startlua a = 1.5 b = 1.8 c = a*b tex.print(c) \stoplua % You can also do more elaborate calculations with the lua math library: \ctxlua{tex.print("$\string\\sqrt{2Installation navbox} = " .. math.sqrt(2) .. "$")} \stoptext</code> and run it with<code> texexec --lua filename.tex</code> == See also ==