Followed this wiki,

http://wiki.contextgarden.net/ConTeXt_Minimals

installed in my personal directory.

Now for the most elementary quetsion: Given the file foo.tex how do I actually run mkiv context on it?

I tried

mtxrun template.tex

and I get the error:

./template.tex:1: unexpected symbol near '\'

template.tex is an outline of a Context file:

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