Debian installation

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

• The final version in debian squeeze (aka debian stable 6.0) is 2009.11.26-2
• in december 2010 a new experimental .deb package was built you can try it out: http://packages.debian.org/experimental/context

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.