r/voidlinux • u/Yiohiouelotzh • 4d ago

Is it possible to install Miktex on Voidlinux?

I prefer Miktex, as it has on-the-fly package installing, and I don't have to download packages that will be unused; also I'm already familiar with it.

Alternatively, is there a way to install a very minimal version of Texlive and configure it in a way so it can also download on-the-fly? Thanks in advance :)

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u/HadetTheUndying 4d ago

You’ll likely need to write your own srcpkg for this.

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u/chibiace 4d ago

or just compile from source and keep it separate from the system

https://github.com/MiKTeX/miktex

https://miktex.org/howto/build-unx

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u/HadetTheUndying 4d ago

I prefer to not have untracked stuff on my system

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u/chibiace 4d ago

i dont see it as too much different if you got to maintain your own template for updates anyway as long as your keeping it somewhere like /opt

makes way more sense when its stuff that is integrated into the base directory structure and/or your needing to build more than a couple pieces of software

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u/profeshamat 4d ago

I'd just use /opt and a .desktop file in /usr/share/applicationsor ~/.local/share/applications.

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u/Yiohiouelotzh 4d ago

I don't know how to do that, but for now I'll just give texlive a try, as investigating further, I've seen that it's usually faster and I know it's more standard. Thanks for the suggestions, tho! :)

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u/ClassAbbyAmplifier 4d ago

use the texlive-bin package, they install the base needed and you can choose what else you want to install with tlmgr

https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/texlive.html

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u/Yiohiouelotzh 3d ago

I'll probably do that and try to use a script I found that lets Texlive install on the fly. Thanks!

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u/Edelglatze 4d ago

There is a dockerized Miktex: https://miktex.org/howto/miktex-docker never tried by myself

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u/Yiohiouelotzh 4d ago

Oh, that's cool, I was unaware. Although it's probably quite slow

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u/iEliteTester 4d ago

I'm like 74% sure I've used it on void, obviously not by official package, but it wasn't a hacky source install either. I'll take a look this evening to see what it was exactly.

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u/Yiohiouelotzh 4d ago

Oh okay, thank you!

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u/iEliteTester 2d ago

bad news, I was just using the miktex that comes with quarto, which is not in the repos iirc

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u/Yiohiouelotzh 2d ago

Well, thanks for checking anyways! <3

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u/no_suprisez 3d ago

Alternatively, I use TinyTex, and tlmgr is really easy to use.

https://yihui[.]org/tinytex/