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unruhschuh / TeXstudio.AppImage

AppImage for TeXstudio
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Bundle minimal TeX Live #2

Open probonopd opened 8 years ago

probonopd commented 8 years ago

I have found a way to bundle a minimal version of TeX Live inside the AppImage. The resulting AppImage can output PDF files without any existing LaTeX installation in the system and is 149 MB in size which I think is still reasonable.

If needed we could also have a script check the system for a pre-existing LaTeX installation and if it exists (e.g., latexpdf is already on the $PATH) use that instead.

Here is the recipe, I am using your AppImage as the basis and bundle the minimal version of TeX Live: https://github.com/probonopd/AppImages/blob/master/recipes/texstudio/Recipe

And here is the AppImage: https://bintray.com/probono/AppImages/download_file?file_path=TeXstudio-2.10.8.tl20160405.glibc2.4-x86_64.AppImage

There is one remaining issue which I couldn't resolve and would love to get help on: If you open the AppImage and try to run pdflatex, then the pdflatex binary is not found (although it is on the $PATH, see my custom AppRun script). However if I go to Options -> Configure TeXstudio -> Commands -> PdfLaTex -> Select Program -> Press OK, then it starts working.

What do I need to do in order not to need the manual Options -> Configure TeXstudio -> Commands -> PdfLaTex -> Select Program -> Press OK?

unruhschuh commented 8 years ago

I didn't have much time lately. I will look into this in the coming days/weeks.

emk2203 commented 7 years ago

Since you say you have not much time - is it still maintained, are you going to update this with 2.12.6?

RoyiAvital commented 6 years ago

Is there a way for it to have MiKTeX / TeXLive which supports downloading packages? I'd suggest also bundle GhostScript with it.

Let us know if you can update it to the latest.