ConTeXt Binaries on CTAN

Successfully installing these binaries for use with ConTeXt requires many steps; users are strongly urged to use their TeX distribution's package manager instead of using these files directly. See INSTALLING.md for further discussion.

Binary Structure

For a working ConTeXt installation, all of the following requirements must be met.

1. The binary appropriate for your platform must be named luametatex, and must be in your $PATH.

1. Files named context and mtxrun must be present in the same directory as the luametatex binary discussed above. These files may be either symbolic links pointing to luametatex (recommended), or bitwise-identical copies.

1. Files named context.lua and mtxrun.lua must be present in the same directory as the context and mtxrun binaries. These files may be either symbolic links pointing to the correct scripts located in $TEXMFDIST/scripts/context/lua/ (recommended), or may be bitwise-identical copies of these files.

Step 3 is the most important step, and cannot be circumvented—there is no way to run ConTeXt without the (non-executable) scripts being present directly beside the corresponding binaries.