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Greetings, First, thanks for all the wonderful work on context. Now, to the reason for this note. I recently tries to install context on an OpenBSD 6.5 AMD64 system, but the install failed. Thanks to some helpful emails in the archives from 2017 and 2018, I was able to get this working by editing mtxrun and mtx-update.sh. I include what I did below. Thanks again, Robert 1) Do the usual: mkdir context && cd context rsync -ptv rsync://contextgarden.net/standalone/setup/first-setup.sh . ./first-setup.sh This will silently fail, because bin/mtx-update.lua bin/mtxrun do not recognize openbsd. 2) Edit bin/mtxrun: We need to define a "good" version of resolvers.platform(t,k) At line 4049, there is a default definition. Replace it with: function resolvers.platform(t,k) local platform="openbsd6.5-amd64" os.setenv("MTX_PLATFORM",platform) os.platform=platform return platform end 3) Edit bin/mtx-update: 3a) In the table update.platforms add an entry for openbsd: ["openbsd6.5-amd64"] = "openbsd6.5-amd64", I put this at line 198, after the entries for freebsd. 3b) In the function update.synchronize() replace line 282: local platforms = states.get('platforms') or { } with: local platforms = states.get('platforms') or {"openbsd6.5-amd64" } 3c) At the very start of local function add_collection(collection,platform) line 417, add: platform = "openbsd6.5-amd64" Maybe something is broken on my system or these last two aren't really needed, but this is what I did, 4) Edit first-setup.sh: To avoid overwriting the files we just edited, comment out line 146: # rsync -rlptv rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/$platform/bin . This may interfere with future updates. 5) Install for real this time: ./first-setup.sh --modules=all 6) Finally, the setuptex script gives me an error message: megaera$ . /home/<name>/Context/tex/setuptex /bin/ksh: /home/<name>/Context/tex/setuptex[163]: ${.sh.file}": bad substitution but it is not hard to set the path correctly: PATH=$PATH\:/home/<name>/Context/tex/texmf-openbsd6.5-amd64/bin ; export PATH