mtx-update(1)

📦 version 2026.0, in alpine 3.24

🌸 mtx-update — ConTeXt Minimals Updater 🌸

Okay bestie, welcome to mtx-update(1), the ConTeXt Minimals Updater page from the ConTeXt Minimals Updater manual. Yes, that's the same thing twice, and yes, it's iconic 💅. This little script is your updater for the ConTeXt Minimals tree, and I'm gonna walk you through every single flag because we don't skip options in this house. Periodt.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

mtxrun --script update [ OPTIONS ...  ] [ FILENAMES ]

Read it like a recipe, bestie: you call mtxrun, you say --script update, then you sprinkle on OPTIONS and optionally some FILENAMES at the end. That's the whole vibe check.

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

ConTeXt Minimals Updater.

(Yeah, that's literally what it says. Short and mysterious. Main character energy, honestly 🫶.)

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

Buckle up, because here comes the full list — every flag, no cuts, no skips 🔥

  • --platform= string — tells it which platform you're on. The options it knows are windows, linux, linux-64, osx-intel, osx-ppc, linux-ppc.
  • --server= string — the repository url. Defaults to rsync://contextgarden.net.
  • --module= string — repository url, and the default here is minimals.
  • --repository= string — specify the version. Choices are current, experimental.
  • --context= string — specify the version, but for context itself: current, latest, beta, yyyy.mm.dd.
  • --rsync= string — the rsync binary to use, defaults to rsync.
  • --texroot= string — the installation directory. Heads up: it says "not guessed for the moment", so you're gonna have to tell it yourself 🙈.
  • --engine= string — the tex engine: luatex, pdftex, xetex.
  • --modules= string — extra modules. Can be a list, or literally 'all' if you're feeling chaotic.
  • --fonts= string — additional fonts. Also a list, or 'all'.
  • --goodies= string — extra binaries, like scite and texworks.
  • --force — instead of a dryrun, do the real thing. No take-backs, bestie 😭.
  • --update — update minimal tree.
  • --make — also make formats and generate file databases.
  • --keep — don't delete unused or obsolete files.
  • --state — update tree using saved state.
  • --cygwin — adapt drive specs to cygwin.
  • --mingw — assume mingw binaries being used.
  • --silent — less (or no) logging. Peace and quiet, finally 🤫.

👑 AUTHOR 👑

More information about ConTeXt and the tools that come with it can be found at:

And that's the whole page, bestie! 🦋 This one's version 1.03, dated 01-01-2026 — go forth and update those minimals responsibly 💖✨

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