Vedran Miletić
2010/12/12 Jonas Stein
Hi,
context in debian testing is quite old (2009)
will that destroy my packagemanager or is it a good idea, to try this:
purge the installed context as root run # checkinstall bash then the commands of http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals#System-wide_installation
Yes. I have installed it that way in a computer that students use for education, and it works. We don't use LaTeX there, so I can't say if there is a conflict with it.
Regards,
Vedran Miletić
If you follow the Minimals instructions you won't have problems, because the installation is self-contained. I suggest you not to put the `source $INSTALLDIR/tex/setuptex` command in .bashrc or .bash_login, to keep clean the PATH. Instead put an alias in ~/.bashrc alias activatecontext="source $HOME/usr/context/tex/setuptex" When you need to use context, execute `activatecontext` and use that shell. If you use an integrated editor, start it from the shell where you activate it. Do you want to use LaTeX or the old context shipped by the distro? Start a fresh shell. Maybe my explanation is still confused :-\, but I can elaborate further, if needed. -- Marco