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== Debian & Derivatives ==
I had trouble installing ConTeXt Standalone under LMDE, a Debian derivative.
At the end, I solved my problem by adopting and adapting part of the ConTeXt Standalone instructions for Ubuntu. What I did, is explained at TeX.SE [http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/132464/26348].
Considering the popularity of Debian, I would like to see this information also here. Furthermore, there is no link from this page to the Ubuntu Standalone instructions page.--[[User:Serge|Serge]] 21:44, 9 September 2013 (CEST)
Maybe I'm dense, but what speaks again using "#apt-get install context"? Seems to run fine. Using Debian sid it installs version 2014.05.21 22:04.
== Binary versions ==
mtxrun --script update --platform=<your platform> --engine=<a TeX engine> --texroot=<install dir> --update
Platform (default is ''win'') can be : * ''win'', * ''linux'', * ''linux-64'', * ''osx-ppc'', * ''osx-intel'' or * ''sun'' Engine (default: is ''winall'');engine can be ''pdftex'', ''xetex'', ''luatex'', ''all''any of the following, or a comma-separated list of any of those combination (default: ''all''). If you want to specify a list of engines, you would have to protect it on most shells: such as <code>--engine='xetex, luatex'</code>, for example. ): * ''pdftex''* ''xetex''* ''luatex''* ''all'' TeX root, obviously, is the location of your installation (the directory where texmf trees like texmf, texmf-local, etc. are to be found), default: ''tex'' (relative to the current directory).
Most of the task of <code>mtx-update</code> is to run <code>rsync</code> to synchronize your local installation with the repository. It is assumed that Unix users (including Mac OS X) would have an rsync client installed by default on their system; for Windows an rsync binary is provided as part of the initial setup (see next paragraph).
There are a great many links to the internet that are potentially useful to people that have trouble handling their own computer, but those are not on topic for this wiki. Please don't add 'how to use your Apple' links on ConTeXt specific pages, it clutters the wiki with off-topic information. [[User:Taco|Taco]] 08:48, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
: Actually, I thought for a moment that you were a commercial spammer because you don't have a user page and were posting links to external sites. If you really '''must''' have Mac-specific links on this wiki, please add them to [[Mac Fix]], that page seems to contain more of that. [[User:Taco|Taco]]
