installation on debian testing

installation on debian testing

[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

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Jonas Stein <news@jonasstein.de>

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Re: installation on debian testing

[Vedran Miletić]

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2010/12/12 Jonas Stein <news@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

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Re: installation on debian testing

[Marco Pessotto]

Vedran Miletić <rivanvx@gmail.com> writes:

> 2010/12/12 Jonas Stein <news@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

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Re: installation on debian testing

[Jonas Stein]

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,

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Re: installation on debian testing/unstable

[Alan BRASLAU]

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
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