Pablo,

Thanks for your reply, everything works fine now.  I left texlive on my 
system since I need it for a couple of other things, but uninstalled the 
context modules.

Geert

On 28/02/17 17:34, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> On 02/28/2017 02:23 PM, Geert Dobbels wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> After several years away from Context, I would like to start using it
>> again and encounter the following problem:
>>
>> I am on a Fedora 25 system, 64bit machine and installed context from the
>> rpm repositories via dnf.  The repositories contain a Texlive 2016 version.
>>
>> I installed "texlive" and "texlive-context" from those repositories, and
>> context works out of the box.
> Hi Geert,
>
> I’m on Fedora 25, but my laptop is old (so, mine is a 32bit machine).
>
> When I came back to ConTeXt, I installed it from TeX Live. But after
> some use (and the kind advice from different people in this list), I
> decided to install the ConTeXt Suite.
>
> It is as simple as:
>
> time (cd && mkdir temp-ctx-install && cd temp-ctx-install &&\
> rsync -ptv rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/first-setup.sh . &&\
> ./first-setup.sh --modules=all && cd &&\
> source temp-ctx-install/tex/setuptex && mtxrunjit --generate)
>
> With a decent internet connection it only takes two minutes to download
> (the command "time" is there to measure things ;-)).
>
> Why do I write this? Because I had the same thoughts (“Installing a beta
> version? Crazy!”). And now I don’t have any other TeX distribution
> installed on my system ;-).
>
> Since the installation is portable, you may install it besides your TeX
> Live ConTeXt. Depending on your free space available, you may have
> different betas in the same computer. After all, they aren’t installed
> on the system.
>
> All you have to do is to invoke (before running ConTeXt):
>
>    source /directory-where-context-suite-is-placed/tex/setuptex
>
> All paths will be loaded and everything will be fine.
>
> Using the current beta, you have latest implementations available and
> you avoid dealing with ancient bugs.
>
> BTW, "mtxrun --generate" might help you with the issue you reported.
> (Not tested, since I don’t want to install TeX Live :-).)
>
> Just in case it helps,
>
> Pablo

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