I just tried using the first_setup.sh script from http://minimals.contextgarden.net/setup/context-setup-linux-64.zip and ran into a small problem with the texlua binary. Here's what happened when I ran the script: $ sudo ./first-setup.sh receiving file list ... done sent 95 bytes received 178 bytes 78.00 bytes/sec total size is 3594531 speedup is 13166.78 MtxRun | version 1.0.2 - 2007+ - PRAGMA ADE / CONTEXT MtxRun | skipping configuration for /texmf-local/web2c from ///home/martin/luatex-cache/context/trees/d80510d450a3fa2a64df4d3741825f1d MtxRun | skipping configuration for /texmf/web2c from ///home/martin/luatex-cache/context/trees/3113242409ded67a0ad7bd508bd26609 MtxRun | using script: ./bin/mtx-update.luareport >> update: start Error in lua file loading: /usr/local/share/texmf/context/bin/mtxrun:1398: 'popen' not supported To solve the problem I had to download the 32-bit linux texlua binary, and then changed first_setup.sh to copy the 32-bit binary into the bin sub-directory after the rsync call that fetches the 64-bit binary from the minimals web site. It seems that the installation went OK after that. I suspect that the 64-bit linux texlua binary on the web site is old, which also seems to be the case in comparing the timestamps on the 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Thanks for making the minimals web site available. -- Martin