Getting MiKTeX

Install for macOS High Sierra (64-bit)

To set up a TeX/LaTeX system on macOS, download and open this disk image. Then drag the MiKTeX icon onto the Applications folder.

Date:	5/21/2018
File name:	miktex-2.9.6700-1-darwin-x86_64.dmg
Size:	48.51 MB
SHA-256:	563cbc966ab1fa3bf36966de3a6afa1e59fe0a4adb409e28cdf05b2fc110fd38
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Please read the tutorial, if you want step-by-step guidance.

When you have installed MiKTeX, it is recommended that you start MiKTeX Console in order to get the latest updates.

Install for Linux

Repository registration

To install MiKTeX for Linux, you need to register the repository which contains the MiKTeX installation package.

Ubuntu 18.04 (64-bit)

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys D6BC243565B2087BC3F897C9277A7293F59E4889
echo "deb http://miktex.org/download/ubuntu bionic universe" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/miktex.list
sudo apt-get update

Ubuntu 16.04, Linux Mint 18.3 (64-bit)

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys D6BC243565B2087BC3F897C9277A7293F59E4889
echo "deb http://miktex.org/download/ubuntu xenial universe" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/miktex.list
sudo apt-get update

Debian 9 (64-bit)

sudo apt-key adv --keyserver hkp://keyserver.ubuntu.com:80 --recv-keys D6BC243565B2087BC3F897C9277A7293F59E4889
echo "deb http://miktex.org/download/debian stretch universe" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/miktex.list
sudo apt-get update

MiKTeX installtion

After you have registered the repository, you can install MiKTeX:

sudo apt-get install miktex

Please read the tutorial, if you want step-by-step guidance.

When you have installed MiKTeX, it is recommended that you start MiKTeX Console in order to get the latest updates.

Docker image

The Docker image allows you to run MiKTeX on any computer that supports Docker. You can obtain the image from Docker hub:

docker pull miktex/miktex

Create a volume:

docker volume create --name miktex

Provided that your main input file is located in the current working directory, you can run pdflatex as follows:

docker run -ti \
  -v miktex:/miktex/.miktex \
  -v `pwd`:/miktex/work \
  miktex/miktex \
  pdflatex main.tex

Please read the tutorial, if you want step-by-step guidance.

Please beware that the Docker image is still in an experimental stage.

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