Getting MiKTeX

Install on macOS

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

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

Install on Linux

MiKTeX is available for selected Linux distributions.

Installing MiKTeX on Linux involves these steps:

1. Register the GPG key with which MiKTeX installation packages and metadata is signed. The key ID is: D6BC243565B2087BC3F897C9277A7293F59E4889
2. Register the installation source which contains the MiKTeX installation package. The installation source depends on the Linux distribution version.
3. Use the package management system to install MiKTeX.

Please click a tab to get instructions for your Linux distribution:

•  Ubuntu
•  Mint
•  Debian
•  Fedora
•  openSUSE

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

echo "deb http://miktex.org/download/ubuntu xenial universe" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/miktex.list

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install miktex

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

echo "deb http://miktex.org/download/ubuntu xenial universe" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/miktex.list

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install miktex

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
sudo apt-get install miktex

sudo rpm --import "https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD6BC243565B2087BC3F897C9277A7293F59E4889"

sudo curl -L -o /etc/yum.repos.d/miktex.repo https://miktex.org/download/fedora/30/miktex.repo

sudo curl -L -o /etc/yum.repos.d/miktex.repo https://miktex.org/download/fedora/28/miktex.repo

sudo dnf update
sudo dnf install miktex

sudo rpm --import "https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD6BC243565B2087BC3F897C9277A7293F59E4889"

sudo curl -L -o /etc/zypp/repos.d/miktex.repo https://miktex.org/download/opensuse/15/miktex.repo

sudo zypper update
sudo zypper install miktex

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

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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