On Feb 17, 2014, at 5:51 PM, ntg-context-request@ntg.nl wrote:

On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 9:23 PM, John Kitzmiller wrote:
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.)

It is trivial provided that someone is willing to compile the latest
LuaTeX. Well, there might be some issues with different flavours of
arm architectures (I'm not sure how to distinguish one from another).

Can you please try if these binaries work (there are two arm binaries,
I'm not sure which ones are the proper ones)?
- http://tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/bin/
Or if you are able to install TeX Live?
- http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html

If so, I'll add the necessary architecture to the list.


I installed Ubuntu on the chromebook using crouton (http://lifehacker.com/how-to-install-linux-on-a-chromebook-and-unlock-its-ful-509039343) and then apt-get context which gave a texlive version for armhf; also got vim and evince. From terminal under Ubuntu, which runs on top of ChromeOS, context foo.tex compiled a Hello World and a \startMPpage figure. That much worked.

This made me think the link for armhf-linux above might work without Ubuntu, but I am not skilled enough to use the trunk/Master--I got a text sym-link and a 7.3mb luatex file that I can not yet make executable (command not found.)

The texlive/acquire-netinstall results in 'Permission denied' even with sudo on the chromebook.

I have not yet tried Martin's approach with the .deb files but wanted to report back and thank you both for your suggestions.

John