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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 slightly tested packages backported for Ubuntu 6.10 's packaged version of ConTeXt is quite old (edgycirca 2009); they have also been working on my Feisty (7.04) laptop. Put these two lines in your <tt>/etc/apt/sources.list</tt>:, 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

Then you can apt-get install the texlive 2007 and recent context packages. See the [[Debian installation]] instructions for the details, but here is the quickstart:

apt-get update apt-get to install cm-super texlive-fonts-recommended context context-nonfree context-doc-nonfreeConTeXt and its dependencies.

That command also installs the needed texlive packages for pdftex, metapost, lmodern etc. The <tt>cm-super</tt> package is dependencies pull in the ''universe'' repository so various PDF utilities which you'll need that enabled in your will probably find useful, including <ttcode>sources.listpdfcrop</ttcode>. You should not need to chase down the old teTeX 3.0 packages, which will be removed automatically by the above installation line. To test whether the basics of ConTeXt are working after the upgrade, try:

ctxtools If you would like to use the [http://www.tug.org/texworks/ TeXworks] GUI--contextversionbased TeX editing environment usually included with TeX Live CDs, it is available via

== Dapper (6and will appear under Applications, Science & Math.06) ==

Backporting from gutsy (7.10) results in a circular dependency, so I gave See also:* Setting 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-extra</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 installationTeXworks]].

* The standard Ubuntu's default installation lacks a few tools that LuaTeX package does not scan any of your installed system fonts. Therefore you'll need will want to set up the OSFONTDIR environment variable to build a new version of pdfTeX and '''point to run new versions of ConTeXt'''all the font paths. So before upgrading, doFor example:<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>.

After doing all of the above, the new versions seem to be working export OSFONTDIR=~/.fonts:/usr/share/fonts:/usr/share/texmf/fonts/opentype/:/opt/libreoffice/basis3.3/share/fonts/

TeXExec 5.4.3 mtxrun - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2005script fonts --reload

''Breezy's support ends in April 2007, so you are advised to upgrade (one Ubuntu release at a time) to a more recent release in order to scan all the font directories. Then 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 --list --all --pattern=*

Install these packages before trying 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-64/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}}