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The directions for using TeXLive are at http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html .
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The full directions for using TeXLive are at http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html though if you are brave you can just try
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Once you've installed the basic packages, you'll need a few extras:
 
Once you've installed the basic packages, you'll need a few extras:
  

Revision as of 06:00, 6 January 2007

Use TeXLive packages

The context packages depend on TeXLive, so if you are using the Debian teTeX packages (e.g. see whether tetex-base is installed by doing "dpkg -l tetex-base"), it's time to make the change to TeXLive. You'll have to do it eventually since teTeX 3.0 will be its last upstream release. So if not now, when?

If you are switching from teTeX, it's important to purge, not just remove the tetex-* packages, before installing the TeXLive packages. Otherwise the teTeX packages's configuration files, including those in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/ and /etc/texmf/fmt.d/, will remain like a ghost haunting the system. One way to do that is

 apt-get --purge remove tetex-{extra,doc,bin,base}

The full directions for using TeXLive are at http://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html though if you are brave you can just try

 apt-get update && apt-get install texlive

Once you've installed the basic packages, you'll need a few extras:

 apt-get install texlive-metapost lmodern cm-super

Check for shadowing formats and macros

These installation instructions describe a system-wide install. But individual users may have followed the old directions on this page and (sorry!) made a per-user ConTeXt installation. Those will shadow the system-wide install. If that's what they want to do, no problem.

But if they want to use the system-wide install (recommended except for those who are testing Hans's latest versions...), then there are two issues.

The first issue is old format files. If a user has format files in ~/.texmf-var/web2c/engine where engine is typically pdfetex, then these will shadow the ones installed by the context package. So the user should delete the ConTeXt-related ones, such as cont-*.fmt, mptopdf.fmt, and metafun.mem.

To find them, the user can do:

 kpsewhich cont-en.fmt

or

 kpsewhich -engine pdfetex cont-en.fmt

(and similarly for the other formats). Run it from a 'typical' directory (e.g. ~), rather than from ~/.texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex/ (adjust for your engine), otherwise it will find the newly created formats before any others even if they are not shadowing anything else.

The second issue is the ConTeXt macros. If a user has installed them a directory that shadows /usr/share/texmf, then they will be found rather than the system-wide ones. So move the shadowing context installations out of the way. The user can check with

 kpsewhich cont-new.tex

and make sure that it's not finding any (until you do the system-wide install, of course).

Install the ConTeXt packages

Norbert Preining has produced reliable, complete ConTeXt packages for Debian, and they use very recent versions of ConTeXt (as of this writing, which is 2007.01.05, the latest package has the 2007.01.02 version of ConTeXt). Here's how to use them. Add these two lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list :

 deb http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ context/
 deb-src http://www.tug.org/texlive/Debian/ context/

Then do

 apt-get update
 apt-get install context context-nonfree context-doc-nonfree

and apt will download and install the latest ConTeXt packages.

Finished!

That should do it! The output of ctxtools --contextversion (run as you, not as root) is hopefully like this:

CtxTools | context version: 2007.01.02 13:44 (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/context.tex)
CtxTools | context version: 2007.01.02 13:44 (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex)

The long path to context.tex and cont-new.tex show where the system thinks the context macros are installed. Make sure your installation is finding those versions. See also the Debian TeXlive install page.