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{{note|Releases of Debian (or any other distribution 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 the packages from Debian/unstable, [[ConTeXt Standalone]], or at least install the latest version of [[TeX Live]] with [[TLContrib]] manually.}}
 
== Install the ConTeXt packages ==
Norbert Preining has produced reliable, complete The status of ConTeXt packages for in Debian/unstable is currently up to date with TeX Live 2021, and includes all the necessary bits and pieces, plus the modules shipped in TeX Live.
If you are running Debian sid or later, then the <code>context</code> package should already be visible (and the <code>context-nonfree</code> and <code>context-doc-nonfreemodules</code> packages are in the nonfree repository)should already be visible. then Then do
aptitude update
aptitude install context context-nonfree context-doc-nonfreemodules
* The final version in debian bullseye (aka debian stable 11.2) is 2020.03.10.20200331-1
* In ''unstable'' is a version that is from the TeX Live 2021
* The final version in debian squeeze (aka debian stable 6.0) is 2009.11.26-2* in december 2010 a new experimental === Install latest unstable context .deb package was built you can try it out: http://packages.debian.org/experimental/context===
=== install latest experimental context <tt>unstable</tt> means ''(mature) development'', the version number may changes.deb package ===The software is ''stable''
1. Download the two .deb -s http://packages.debian.org/experimentalunstable/all/context/downloadhttp://packages.debian.org/unstable/all/context-modules/download
2. run as root(the version number might have increased a bit) dpkg -i context_2010-install context_2021.0703.3005.20220211-1_all.deb mtxrun --generate 3. run as user mtxrun --generate Step 2. is currently still necessary, but soon an update of tex-common will run mtxrun --generate automatically when packages have changed (like mktexlsr), and there will be no need to run this anymore. Step 3. needs to be done only when you have files in TEXMFHOME or you change things there.
You have now a system wide context-installation!
== See also ==
 
{{Installation navbox}}
[[Category:Installation]]
the [[Debian TeXlive install]] page.
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