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`][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 `$PATH`. 2. Files named `context` and `mtxrun` must be present in the same directory as the `luametatex` binary discussed above. These files may be either symbolic links pointing to `luametatex` (recommended), or bitwise-identical copies. 3. Files named `context.lua` and `mtxrun.lua` must be present in the same directory as the `context` and `mtxrun` binaries. These files may be either symbolic links pointing to the correct scripts located in `$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. [INSTALLING.md]: ../archives/INSTALLING.md