When I asked about the fresh install, I think I was asking to Mikael who can compile the sample file. Sorry Floris, this was not clear enough because I've been answering to the mailing-list digest and not to invidual messages.
Mikael, maybe you have in your $PATH some remembrances of past installation / files?

Jean-Guillaume


Le lundi 5 juin 2023 à 15:15:46 UTC+2, <ntg-context-request@ntg.nl> a écrit :

For whatever it is worth, I just tried to install tikz with

mtxrun --script install-modules --install tikz

and then your example in your first mail did compile here (and gave a
cross, and that looks right from the source).

/Mikael 

On 05/06/2023 12:33, Jig? via ntg-context wrote:
> Did you do that in a fresh install?

yes