On Wed, 26 Dec 2007, Ciro Soto wrote:
Hello all, I used Context to write an entire novel in 2005 (under Fedora linux). Since then I didn't do any work in Context until now. I am now coming back to write a second book (under Ubuntu this time), and found myself totally confused with all this new business of luatex, mkii, mkiv, installation, etc. This set of messages touches many of those issues, but it is not organized in such a way that I can follow a step-by-step procedure to use the latest Context. I even question whether I need to use luatex. Could any of the Context gurus give me an advice or provide a document to update my Context in ubuntu?
Ubuntu ships with 2007.04.17 version of ConTeXt. For most purposes this is recent enough. I would suggest that you start with that. If you run into a bug or require a new feature, then think about how to upgrade to the latest version. Ubuntu version of context is usually never less than a year old (follows texlive, I think), so using that will be easiest. To install context, go to System->Administration->Synaptic Packet Manager and search for context and install context and context-nonfree (and context-doc-nonfree if you want). Aditya