Vedran Miletić <riva...@gmail.com> writes: > 2010/12/12 Jonas Stein <n...@jonasstein.de> > > 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
