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< [[Installation hints]] | [[TeX Distributions]] >  {{note | The officially recommened way of installing ConTeXt on all platforms is using [[ConTeXt Minimals]]}}  = Look before you leap = Most [[TeX Distributions]] include an installation of ConTeXt already -- try running <tt>texexec --version</tt> to see if it's installed on your system. If it is not installed, there are two important considerations while considering ConTeXt installation. * Do you want a ConTeXt distribution or do you want a TeX distribution (plain TeX, LaTeX, ConTeXt, and lots of other goodies). * Do you want a stable version of ConTeXt, or do you want the bleeding edge version. Remember that ConTeXt gets updated frequently. If you are on a Linux system, there is also a third consideration: * Do you want a distribution package, or do you want your own local TeX installation.  Depending on your OS and the answers to the above questions, you should choose what to install.  = Installation =select your operating system (alphabetical order)  == Linux ==In decreasing order of simplicity, here are a few options: * (simplest) If you distribution supports [[TeX Live]] packages, use them. Debian, Ubuntu, openSUSE, Gentoo, Fedora, Arch and Mandriva (if not too old) do so. See [[Debian installation]] or [[Ubuntu installation]].* If you are running an rpm-based distribution (RedHat, Fedora, Mandrake, Mandriva etc.), then you can most easily uninstall them like so: rpm --qa | grep tetex rpm --erase <package-names> <code>rpm</code>'s dependencies will tell you what other TeX-related packages are installed but don't have 'tetex' in their names! * Otherwise, use a fresh [[TeX Live]] installation. The problem with this method is that you'll probably have to redo the installation once a year, when the new TeX Live DVD comes out.If you will use TeX Live, you have to delete the distribution-provided teTeX packages (if they exist).  * Alternatively, if you need to use just ConTeXt (e.g. not LaTeX), you can use the [[ConTeXt Minimals]] installation. See the directions that follow.    === Debian / (K)Ubuntu ===Debian_TeXlive_install* [[Debian installation| install ConTeXt on Debian]]* [[Ubuntu installation| install ConTeXt on Ubuntu]]* [[Debian TeXlive install| install TeXlive on Debian]] === Fedora === Deatils for [http://fedoraproject.org Fedora] version 11, 12 and 13 are at [http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/TeXLive Fedora Project Wiki TeX Live page] maintained by Jindrich Novy. The repository provides a snapshot of TeX Live 2010 tlpretest, and it includes very new ConTeXt packages and requires absolutely no manual configuration to get working Mk II and Mk IV. Highly recommended.=== funtoo === If you are using [http://funtoo.org funtoo] there are ebuilds that will make an installation as easy as installing any other package from portage. Take a look at the [[ConTeXt Minimals Funtoo]] Howto. This might also work for [http://www.gentoo.org gentoo], but is untested right now. === SUSE/openSUSE === OpenSUSE (starting from 10.3beta3) comes with TeX Live and offers also XeTeX. 10.3b3 contains ConTeXt 2007.01.12. OpenSUSE 10.2 (released December 2006) uses teTeX 3.0 and contains the 2005.01.31 version of ConTeXt that is standard in teTeX 3.0. The package is <tt>te_cont</tt>. [http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.2/repo/oss/suse/i586/|Here]is an RPM repository where you can find it, but you should be able to install it using automated tools. Then you'll want to upgrade to a more recent version of ConTeXt. As with Suse 10 (see next paragraph), you'll also need the <tt>te_mpost</tt> and <tt>ruby</tt> packages. For older distributions see also: [http://home.salamander.com/~wmcclain/context-help.html#old-installation]  == MAC OSX ==* [[Mac Installation]] == Unix ==* [[OpenBSD installation|OpenBSD]] == Windows ==There are two main TeX distributions for Windows wich contain a stable context* [[MikTeX]] (currently '''ConTeXt support is broken''')* [[TeX-live]] (provides stable ConTeXt) Use [[ConTeXt Minimals]], if you want up to date ConTeXt. * [[Windows Installation]]* [[Simple Windows Installation]] == Installation from source == * [[TeX-live | TeX-live installation]]: Specific installation instructions using the TeX-live source distribution.* [[Installation hints]] [[Category:deletemeInstallation]]