On Thu, 22 Nov 2012, Philipp Gesang wrote:

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Hi everybody,

I would like to be able to use a ConTeXt Standalone on a computer with WinXP Pro and no internet connection and no administrative rights.

Isn't it possible to install on a different computer (let's say c:\context) and then move that to the same directory on the other computer?

I'm really interested in knowing whether this works, since I must first ask to a friend to be able to install ConTeXt on her computer to be able to use it on the computer I want. I'm on Linux myself.

You can install the minimals (for windows) on a pendrive with Wine. This way I had no problem accessing my university’s Adobe fonts at public computers in the library. All I had was a restricted user account and cmd.exe. I used to work flawlessly (until they disabled the terminal when they did a global upgrade to win7).

Does first-setup support --platform=all? That way, you don't need wine to create a USB drive with binaries for windows (and all linux architectures). Aditya

On 23/11/12 00:40, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

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[...] I would like to be able to use a ConTeXt Standalone on a computer with WinXP Pro and no internet connection and no administrative rights.

Isn't it possible to install on a different computer (let's say c:\context) and then move that to the same directory on the other computer? [...] One definitely doesn't need wine. If one only has a linux machine on

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If you have windows computer, just fetch the files and copy them to the other machine. Actually, we also had zips (http://minimals.contextgarden.net/pragma/), but I stopped updating them.

The distribution is not "installed" in traditional sense. Only the files are fetched and nothing is written into global PATH or registry.

Many thanks for the replies, Hans, Philipp, Aditya and Mojca. I understood http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Standalone#Moving_the_installation_tre... so that non-Unix trees weren't impossible to move. Many thanks for your help again, Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk