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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.

== Edgy (6With Ubuntu packages – should work with Ubuntu 7.10) and Feisty (7.04) above ==

Unfortunately, you cannot use the repository given in [[Debian installation]] because the Debian packages were compiled with a (very very slightly) newer libc6 than the one Note that ships with Ubuntu 7.04. Here instead are very untested packages backported for Ubuntu 6.10 's packaged version of ConTeXt is quite old (edgycirca 2009) and they have also been working on my Feisty (7.04) laptop:, so a better option is the ConTeXt Standalone

<nowiki>deb http://webTeX Live and ConTeXt have been part of Ubuntu's main repositories since Ubuntu 7.mit.edu/download/sanjoy/texlive-backports/ edgy/ deb-src http://web.mit.edu/download/sanjoy/texlive-backports/ edgy/</nowiki>10, so you can simply

With the above repository lines, you should be able to apt-get install the texlive and context packages. See the [[Debian installation]] instructions for the details, but here is the quickstart:

apt-get update apt-get to install context context-nonfree context-doc-nonfreeConTeXt and its dependencies.

That command The dependencies pull in various PDF utilities which you will also install the needed texlive packages for pdftexprobably find useful, metapost, lmodern etc. Let me (Sanjoy) know if you find anything brokenincluding <code>pdfcrop</code>.

== Dapper (6If you would like to use the [http://www.06) ==tug.org/texworks/ TeXworks] GUI-based TeX editing environment usually included with TeX Live CDs, it is available via

Backporting from gutsy (7.10) results in a circular dependency, so I gave up on that plan as too hard. However,Ubuntu 6.06 contains teTeX 3.0 (including ConTeXt 2005.01.31), so you can just install <code>tetex apt-extra</code> and use ConTeXt. However, once you got your feet wet, you will probably want to get 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]].texworks

The [[Linux_Installation#Updating_a_Linux_Installation:_Fedora_Core_5|instructions for Fedora Core 5]] are valid for Ubuntu 6and will appear under Applications, Science & Math.06, with a few caveats:

* 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, doSee also:<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>.Setting up [[TeXworks]]

After doing all of === Adding the above, the new versions seem to be working:system fonts ===

TeXExec 5 export OSFONTDIR=~/.4fonts:/usr/share/fonts:/usr/share/texmf/fonts/opentype/:/opt/libreoffice/basis3.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005share/fonts/

texexec : TeXExec 5.4.3 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005 texutil : TeXUtil 9.0.1 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1992-2006 tex : pdfTeXOnce you have done that, 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: 2006.4.24 mes: english</pre>run

''Breezy's support ends in April 2007, so If 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 have an error do not wish to) upgrade.this

Ubuntu 5.10 does not include a TeX installation by default. The distribution that you get when you install TeX is teTeX luatools -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):-generate

Install these packages before trying 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}}