Docker LaTeX

Introduction

DockerFile for Ubuntu Bionic with texlive-full package installed.

This image is based on ubuntu:18.04.

Quick start

Just run an container with a bind mount mapping your LaTeX's working directory to /latex, like the examples below.

me@myhost:~/Documents/foo$ docker container run -it --rm -u $UID:`id -g` -v $(pwd):/latex andrespp/latex
root@e90968520b4ff:/latex# pdflatex main.tex

me@myhost:~/Documents/foo$ docker container run -it --rm -u $UID:`id -g` -v $(pwd):/latex andrespp/latex pdflatex main.tex

Install

In order to run the container as if the application was installed locally, download the pdflatex script to a directory in you $PATH:

$ sudo curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andrespp/docker-latex/master/pdflatex -o /usr/local/bin/pdflatex
$ sudo curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andrespp/docker-latex/master/xelatex -o /usr/local/bin/xelatex
$ sudo curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andrespp/docker-latex/master/biber -o /usr/local/bin/biber
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/pdflatex
$ sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/biber
$ pdflatex --version

pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017/Debian)

Environment variables

None

Issues

If you have any problems with or questions about this image, please contact me through a GitHub issue.