Jessica Holle wrote:

Hi,

in the evening I want to install ConTeXt on my home system. It's Debian testing. It,s easy to install in debian I see. With apt-get it works. But now my question. In you documentation in the wiki is written that ConTeXt should be installed in ~/texmf But the structure is another as when I do it to /usr/local/teTeX . Must I do softlinks to this path to get context to work? Or do I only install teTeX like in the documentation and then install ConTeXt to /home/$USER/texmf and it works?

it does not really matter where you install it, as long as it comes first in the search path the search order is set in the $TEXMF variable, which you can adapt if needed, for instance things like mkdir /lets/do/it/my/way/tex chdir /lets/do/it/my/way/tex unzip cont-tmf.zip MYTREE=/lets/do/it/my/way/tex export MYTREE TEXMF={$MYTREE,.....} export TEXMF mktexlsr texmfstart texexec --make --all should work(in principle) but ... isn't there a texmf-local path? another option is: run: kpsewhich --progname=context context.tex see what path is reported goto the texmf root of that path unzip context there run mktexlsr etc for the rest ... tetex has a rather complex path set up (any combination of usr, home, local, texmf, var, ... could be in use -) so in case of doubt you need to take a look at your expanded $TEX... environment variables in order to see you can give this a try: tmftools --expand-var=* (given that tmftools is on your system) Hans