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Each successive version of Here are instructions for ConTeXt installation on Ubuntu becomes easier to update, which is why the following sections, arranged in reverse chronological order, get successively longerand its derivatives [K/X/L]ubuntu.

== Feisty (7.04) Precompiled / Packaged Nightly Builds From PPA ==

As of today Adam Reviczky was most generous to provide us with an Ubuntu PPA (January 2007Personal Package Archive), feisty is still alpha testthat contains precompiled Ubuntu packages for both ConTeXt and LuaTeX nightlies. But when it is released, you should be able to follow the Instructions for your version of Ubuntu are available for [https://launchpad.net/~reviczky/+archive/context-daily ConTeXt] and [Debian installation]https://launchpad.net/~reviczky/+archive/luatex-daily LuaTeX]instructions.

== Edgy (6With Ubuntu packages – should work with Ubuntu 7.10) and above ==

You can follow the [[Debian installation]] instructions. However, the packages depend on having <tt>tex-common</tt> later than v0.35, and the <tt>tex-common</tt> in edgy Note that Ubuntu's packaged version of ConTeXt is v0.25. So go to http://packages.ubuntu.com/tex-common and get the feisty quite old (7.04circa 2009) package, which will be v0.42 or later, and install it by hand using so a better option is the ConTeXt Standalone

dpkg -i tex-common_0TeX Live and ConTeXt have been part of Ubuntu's main repositories since Ubuntu 7.42_all.deb 10, so you can simply

== Dapper (6to install ConTeXt and its dependencies.06) ==

Ubuntu 6.06 contains teTeX 3.0 (The dependencies pull in various PDF utilities which you will probably find useful, including ConTeXt 2005.01.31), so you can just install <code>tetex-extrapdfcrop</code> and use ConTeXt. However, once you got your feet wet, you will probably want to install a more recent pdfTeX than the 1.21a installed with Ubuntu (since ConTeXt can give you more features with newer pdfTeX's), so again, please follow the instructions for [[TeTeX_3.0 installation]].

The If you would like to use the [[Linux_Installation#Updating_a_Linux_Installationhttp:_Fedora_Core_5|instructions for Fedora Core 5//www.tug.org/texworks/ TeXworks]] are valid for Ubuntu 6.06GUI-based TeX editing environment usually included with TeX Live CDs, with a few caveats:it is available via

* Ubuntu's default installation lacks a few tools that you'll need to build a new version of pdfTeX and '''to run new versions of ConTeXt'''. So before upgrading, do:<pre> sudo apt-get install build-essential bison flex ruby </pre>* The configuration files that users should edit are under <tt> /etc/texmf/texmf.d</tt>. '''Do not''' edit the <tt>.cnf</tt> files in <tt>/usr/share/texmf/web2c</tt> directly; instead, edit the configlet files in the <tt>.d</tt> directory and run <tt> update-texmf</tt> or <tt>update-updmap</tt>.texworks

After doing all of the aboveand will appear under Applications, the new versions seem to be working:Science & Math.

texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2006 tex : pdfTeX, 3.141592-1.40.0-beta-20060213 (Web2C 7.5.5) context : ver: 2006.04.23 23:55 cont-en : ver: 2006.04.23 23:55 fmt: 2006The standard Ubuntu LuaTeX package does not scan any of your installed system fonts.4Therefore you will want to set up the OSFONTDIR environment variable to point to all the font paths.24 mesFor example: english</pre>

export OSFONTDIR== Breezy (5~/.fonts:/usr/share/fonts:/usr/share/texmf/fonts/opentype/:/opt/libreoffice/basis3.10) ==3/share/fonts/

''Breezy's support ends in April 2007Once you have done that, so you are advised to upgrade (one Ubuntu release at a time) to a more recent release in order to run a secure system; Dapper (6.06) will be supported until 2009, so that could be a good choice.'' The following instructions are for those who cannot (or do not wish to) upgrade.

Ubuntu 5.10 does not include a TeX installation by default. The distribution that you get when you install TeX is teTeX mtxrun -2.0.2, which is too old and will not work with recent ConTeXt versions. So you should not install it, but follow the instructions for [[TeTeX_3.0_installation]]. However, you first must install supplementary packages not included in Ubuntu by default (and I hope I'm not forgetting anything; a number of dependencies will automatically be installed as well):-script fonts --reload

Install these packages before trying luatools --generate to scan all the font directories. Then run  mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=* to list all the fonts LuaTeX now knows about. Finally, run  context --reload to make sure ConTeXt's font cache is up to date. If you are using TeXworks, you need to make sure that OSFONTDIR is set in the environment TeXworks runs in, because ConTeXt may decide it needs to compile teTeX 3rescan fonts.0 or running newer  == With ConTeXt Standalone – should work with all Ubuntu versions== Example of setting up [[ConTeXt release (which use ruby rather than perl)Standalone]]:  sudo mkdir /usr/local/context sudo chown yourusername /usr/local/context cd /usr/local/context wget http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/first-setup.sh sh first-setup.sh vi ~/.bashrc Add these three lines:  export OSFONTDIR=~/.fonts:/usr/share/fonts export TEXROOT=/usr/local/context/tex export PATH=/usr/local/context/tex/texmf-linux/bin:/usr/local/context/bin:$PATH Note that the order of items in the PATH is significant. If you put /usr/local/context/bin in the path first, or you will get errors during an error at run time. Also, remember that you have to source ~/.bashrc after changing it, in order to have the compilation changes take effect in your current shell. (Either that, or have problems running start a new shell.) ===Installing third party modules in ConTeXt Standalone === See here: [[ConTeXt_Standalone#Installing_third_party_modules|Installing third party modules]] ===Updating ConTeXt Standalone===The update procedure is similar to [[ConTeXt_Standalone#Updating|the normal procedure]]. If you installed the ConTeXt Standalone with the resultscommands from above, you can update to a new (beta) version like this: cd /usr/local/context wget http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/first-setup.sh ./first-setup.sh --keep {{Installation navbox}}