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The script first-setup: 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.sh indicates Solaris x86 as sunosIf you really '''must''' have Mac-intelspecific links on this wiki, but there is no such directory please add them to [[Mac Fix]], that page seems to contain more of that. [[User:(Taco|Taco]]
Talk:ConTeXt Standalone (view source)
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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).
If you ''don't'' have an installed ConTeXt distribution, you must download from http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/ the appropriate zip archive for your system, and run the shell / batch script in the top-level directory (which should be called <code>context</code>); it is a very simple script that sets the necessary environment to run mtx-update, and it accepts exactly the same switches as mtx-update. By default it will install a ConTeXt distribution suitable for pdfTeX on your system; the top-level directory for that distribution will be <code>context/tex</code> until you tell it otherwise (with the <code>--texroot</code> switch).
== Support More older content == = Contents = The minimals contain:* '''ConTeXt''': current, beta + some older releases* '''Fonts''': most important TeX-aware ones* '''Binaries''': latest version of pdfTeX, XeTeX, LuaTeX, Metapost* '''Formats''' (need to be generated by user) for Solaris x86** ConTeXt, mptopdf and plain TeX for pdfTeX/XeTeX/LuaTeX** metafun and plain for Metapost See [[ConTeXt Minimals/Contents]]. = Configuration = === What to install ===* --'''platform'''=''name-of-platform'' (see supported platforms; default: the one we are working on)* --'''engines'''=''list-of-engines'' (options: luatex, xetex, pdftex, all; default: '''all''')* --'''context'''=''version'' (options: current, beta, alpha, ''yyyy.mm.dd''; default: '''beta''') === What to do ===* --'''force''' (as opposed to --dryrun; do the real thing; this is '''needed''') ''needs to be fixed''* --'''update''' (update minimal tree)* --'''make''' (make formats and generate file databases)* --state (update tree using saved state) ''needs to be implemented/fixed''* --keep (as apposed to --delete; don't delete unused or obsolete files) ''needs to be improved''=== Where to install ===* --'''texroot'''=''path'' (installation path; default: '''tex''')=== Rsync Server ===''(currently there's only one anyway)''* --'''server'''=''repository-url'' (default: '''<code>rsync://contextgarden.net</code>''')* --'''module'''=''string'' (default: '''minimals''')* --'''rsync'''=''name-of-rsync-binary'' (default: '''rsync''') ''Why do we need this? '' See also [[ConTeXt Minimals/Implementation]]. == script cleanup == line 5 in first-setup.sh tells me:<pre># feel free to suggest a more elegant solution</pre>so i do. <pre>if which rsync &> /dev/null; then echo "OK" > /dev/nullelse echo "You need to install rsync first." exitfi</pre>can be replaced with<pre>if [ ! -x "`which rsync`" ]; then echo "You need to install rsync first." exit 1fi</pre> or (as there is another such test below):<pre>check_and_complain () { if [ ! -x "`which $1`" ]; then echo "You need to install $1 first." exit 1 fi}check_and_complain rsynccheck_and_complain ruby</pre> Tobias Florek (w/o user account) == Ruby version == On that recent change to ruby 1.8 '''or newer''': has this actually been tested? Last I remember, there were big problems with ruby 1.9 because it is not upward compatible with ruby 12.8 sources [[User:Taco|Taco]] 14:32, 8 May 2010 (UTC): I have no idea. I have 1.8 here and I'm not sure if I want to mess with my system. The user from Lithuania(?) who wrote that did not login, so maybe he wrote "or later" just because this usually is the case with programming languages. I have no idea to what extent the incompatibility goes. --[[User:Mojca Miklavec|Mojca]] 12:27, 10 May 2010 (UTC) :: Hans says that it "should" work [[User:Taco|Taco]] 12:39, 10 May 2010 (UTC) == Contextwriter: mac links == 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)
