Re: [NTG-context] ConTeXt minimal on chromebook

17. úno (Pondělí) v 23:49:47 CET 2014, John Kitzmiller napsal(a):

On Feb 17, 2014, at 4:01 PM, Martin maaca Rehula wrote:

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I was using ConTeXt (ages ago) on my Nokia N800. There were/are pre-compiled Debian packages for arm architecture. Try looking this direction.

Martin

21:23:53 CET 2014, John Kitzmiller napsal(a):

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I attempted to put ConTeXt minimal on Samsung chromebook and got: Error: your system "Linux armv7l" is not supported yet. Please report to the ConTeXt mailing-list (ntg-context@ntg.nl)

This is not a request to support the armv7l (unless it is trivial) but,

is it futile to attempt installing minimal on a chromebook with Intel ATOM N570, or Intel Celeron-867? (If I had them at hand I would try.)

Thank you Martin. I was not clear. I can run Debian and other *nix flavors on the chromebook by various methods and then have ConTeXt, but I would rather not 'dual boot.'

What I am after is to have ConTeXt run 'natively,' if that is the right word/concept, on a chromebook core platform. From the chromebook shell I know I can run vim to edit files but I would like to compile them. (Viewing will be the next chapter!)

ChromeOS is Linux-based operating system. I don't know, what exactly is different compared to "normal" Linux distribution. You should be able to execute Linux binaries there. .deb packages are not any ultra proprietary, extra DRM-protected things. It is just .tar.gz archive enclosed in the ar archive. So, you can easily extract files from the .deb package, copy them to your chromebook and execute them. I don't expect dependency on too many libraries. Martin