Vedran Miletić writes:

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

On Tuesday 14 December 2010 02:03:17 Jonas Stein wrote:

within the time Norbert Preining prepared a new .deb package including context (2010.07.30-1)

its status is "experimental" for now.

There will be context 2009 in debian 6.0 stable. So this might be a good solution for most debian users for the next months (or years).

i have just testet it on debian testing (squeeze) and it works fine.

Here is how to do it:

1. Download the .deb http://packages.debian.org/experimental/all/context/download

2. run as root dpkg -i context_2010.07.30-1_all.deb

3. work with context.

Thanks a lot to Norbert!

Kind regards,

Or add the following line at the bottom of /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.XX.debian.org/debian experimental main where XX is your local mirror and run as root: $ apt-get update $ apt-get install context/experimental Alan