I have seen answers to this similar question which suggest using latexmk -c or pdflatex -aux-directory=/some/temp/dir <additional options>. I prefer the latter because you can create a subdir...

Synopsis I'm trying to build a Docker image, but it fails because one of the packages I'm trying to get with apt install prompts the user during the install process. I would like to reply to this ...

I need to be able to run the command latexindent but I get this error every time: Unknown PerlIO layer 'encoding' at /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/scripts/latexindent/LatexIndent/Document.pm l...

I am Arch GNU/Linux user who usually manages almost every package with pacman; I manage TeX and LaTeX-related things with tlmgr. I installed tlmgr from source. I am writing paper. I would like to u...

I am new to R and am trying to knit my R Markdown files into PDF format. I continually get the error message: pandoc: pdflatex not found. pdflatex is needed for pdf output. Error: pandoc documen...

I am having a problem configuring the automatic update for the TeXLive even though I am pretty sure that I downladed the 2018 TeXLive version I get is this error $ ls -l /usr/local/texlive$ sudo ...

As I dont have sudo or root access, I want to install Tex live at a different location but install-tl doesn't have any option for this. Is there any other workaround? Default Path is: /usr/local/t...

For years I have been using MacTeX which installs in /usr/local/texlive, and have recently started using Homebrew to manage some packages (though not — yet — TeX). As a consequence of the adoption ...