[tinytex] TinyTeX: A lightweight, cross-platform, portable, and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution based on TeX Live | /tinytex/

[yihui]

TinyTeX: A lightweight, cross-platform, portable, and easy-to-maintain LaTeX distribution based on TeX Live

https://yihui.org/tinytex/

[shrektan]

公司服务器没有互联网链接，最近两天鼓捣了会TexLive，想看看怎么才能弄一个离线的Repo。然后，我发现真是太乱了…真看不懂…

[yihui]

这个你可以早一点问我，就不必浪费这个时间了。其实我已经把 TeX Live 全集都打包好了，只不过我还没昭告天下而已（因为我还没确定最终把这些超级大包存在哪里，是放我个人 Github 账号里还是转移到公司账号下）。全集是 TinyTeX-2：https://github.com/yihui/tinytex-releases/releases/tag/daily

通过 R 安装：

tinytex:::install_prebuilt('TinyTeX-2')

或者通过脚本安装皆可：https://yihui.org/tinytex/#installation 设置环境变量 TINYTEX_INSTALLER=TinyTeX-2。

当然，你也可以直接下载文件，解压缩到合适的位置。

这个精简版的全集体积比官方应该是能小一半的。装它之后就不必再担心缺包了。

[shrektan]

本以为这个需求能很快找到答案，我还是低估了LaTeX的复杂程度！太赞了，我马上试试，谢谢！

[yihui]

嗯，架设一个可以离线使用的仓库估计是会有点复杂，但打包所有的 LaTeX 包就简单多了。既然架设库的主要目的是为了装缺失的包，那还不如就整锅端下来后一劳永逸了。

[shrektan]

是的。其实我本来就是想全装，但tlmgr install scheme-full 在最后一步老是报错，原因不详，已放弃。现在直接一步到位，非常开心，正合我意。

[yihui]

嗯，是的，这个命令确实是有出错的可能，我也一样读不懂错误消息、不明白原因。比如在 AppVeyor 平台上的 macOS 系统就会出错，我直接加个 || true 给暴力忽略了错误：https://github.com/yihui/tinytex-releases/blob/4149573c79eae0d0d722218e0420d799f2c76cc1/appveyor.yml#L96 我试过在 Github Actions 的三大操作系统上运行也会出错，同样原因不详，所以现在我依然在用 AppVeyor 打包。

[Teddy-van-Jerry]

您好，我现在正在做一个仿真软件（mmCEsim）可以自动导出并编译 LaTeX 报告，仅在软件安装包里给用户提供 minimal 的 packages。我想是不是可以直接利用您在 tools 里的代码配合上 GitHub Actions 直接进行 build 呢？不确定是不是修改 tools/pkgs-custom.txt 还是 tools/pkgs-yihui.txt，再调整对应的 build.yml 内容即可实现 :-)

[yihui]

@Teddy-van-Jerry 是的，不过更简单的办法是你先安装 TinyTeX-0，在此基础上再用 tlmgr install 添加你需要的其它包，最后将 TinyTeX 文件夹打包发行。当然，用你说的办法从头编译也是可以的，只是稍微啰嗦一点。

[Teddy-van-Jerry]

哦哦明白啦，非常感谢！

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Guest *Owe Jessen* @ 2017-12-16 13:43:29 originally posted:

Thanks for the works. I got it to install on a windows machine without problems. Where I ran into problems was installing it in Linux on Windows (WSL).

it reports back with warning:

In tinytex::install_tinytex() :
TinyTeX was not successfully installed or configured.

Tried it as a user or with sudo ... to install system-wide.

[yihui]

See footnote 2 above. It seems ~/bin is not on your PATH variable.

You should not use sudo unless you are a system admin and install TinyTeX for other users in the system.

Originally posted on 2017-12-16 15:13:09

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Guest *Roberto Salas* @ 2017-12-27 02:13:45 originally posted:

thank you so much Yihui, the package works flawlessly.

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Guest *Rihuan Huang* @ 2018-01-07 00:36:23 originally posted:

Thanks so much for your work!! I installed it and everything worked fine until I needed a package called "pifont". It reported as:
tlmgr install pifont
tlmgr install: package pifont not present in repository.
tlmgr: action install returned an error; continuing.
tlmgr: package repository http://ctan.math.washington.edu/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet (not verified: gpg unavailable)
tlmgr: An error has occurred. See above messages. Exiting.

I am not really a TeX expert, so I wonder if there is an other way to install this package.

[yihui]

How did you use TinyTeX? Are you compiling a LaTeX document or an R Markdown document? If the latter, all you need is

devtools::install_github(c('yihui/tinytex', 'rstudio/rmarkdown'))

If the former, you need to figure out the actual LaTeX package name:

$ tlmgr search --global --file pifont
tlmgr: package repository http://mirror.utexas.edu/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet (verified)
psnfss:
texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/pifont.sty
tex4ht:
texmf-dist/tex/generic/tex4ht/pifont.4ht
ucs:
texmf-dist/doc/latex/ucs/config/pifont.ucf

And psnfss seems to be what you actually need.

Originally posted on 2018-01-07 02:49:39

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Guest *Enrico Spinielli* @ 2018-01-24 16:08:22 originally posted:

The installation script did not work for me due to authenticated proxies not being automatically considered/found.
What I did was to manually download all the relevant files, move them in the %TEMP% directory, comment out all the download lines in the installation script before running it.

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Guest *U UlvHare* @ 2018-02-28 17:28:29 originally posted:

Dear Yihui, thank you very much for your work!
It's a great idea, but when I tried to install TinyTex to /usr/local/tinytex from R:
install_tinytex(dir="/usr/local/tinytex")
everything installs succesfully to... $HOME/.Tinytex and $HOME/bin
But prints "TinyTeX installed to /usr/local/tinytex", then:
In file.rename(target, user_dir) :
cannot rename '/home/alver/.TinyTeX' to '/usr/local/tinytex' because of 'Invalid cross-device link'

[yihui]

Thanks for the feedback! I can surely fix this issue. May I ask why you wanted to install it to /usr/local/? Unless you were trying to install it for multiple users on the same Linux server, there is no benefit of installing TinyTeX to /usr/local/ as far as I can see.

Originally posted on 2018-03-02 14:58:55

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Guest *U UlvHare* @ 2018-03-02 15:45:37 originally posted:

Hi, Yihui, thanks for answer!
The reason to install TinyTex to /usr/local/ is simple: it's on SSD, while /home is on big but slow HDD. I've tested vanilla TexLive on both and from SSD it works sensibly faster.

[yihui]

I see. That makes perfect sense! I'll fix it in the R package tinytex. In the meantime, I think you can use the mv command to move the directory, e.g.,

mv ～/.TinyTeX /usr/local/tinytex

Or wrap it in R: system('mv ～/.TinyTeX /usr/local/tinytex')

Then you need to run

/usr/local/tinytex/bin/*/tlmgr path add

Originally posted on 2018-03-02 16:14:02

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Guest *U UlvHare* @ 2018-03-02 17:27:24 originally posted:

Ok, thank you!

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Guest *Judy Lewis* @ 2018-03-05 18:54:03 originally posted:

Yihui, can you help? I am stumped. I installed tinytex and am now unable to generate pdf reports from Shiny/Rmarkdown. The error I consistently see is pasted below. Any ideas? Thank you so much! Judy Lewis

"C:/Users/lewisjt4/AppData/Local/Pandoc/pandoc" +RTS -K512m -RTS reportPDF.utf8.md --to latex --from markdown+autolink_bare_uris+ascii_identifiers+tex_math_single_backslash --output pandoc14c46ff645e9.tex --template "C:Userslewisjt4DocumentsRwin-library3.4rmarkdownrmdlatexdefault-1.17.0.2.tex" --highlight-style tango --latex-engine pdflatex --variable graphics=yes --variable "geometry:margin=1in"
Warning: running command '"pdflatex" -halt-on-error -interaction=batchmode "file14c49df4426.tex"' had status 1
Warning: Error in : Failed to compile file14c49df4426.tex.
Stack trace (innermost first):
58: show_latex_error
57: on_error
56: system2_quiet
55: run_engine
54: latexmk_emu
53: tinytex::latexmk
52: latexmk
51: rmarkdown::render
50: download$func [downloadReports.R#158]
1: runApp
Error : Failed to compile file14c49df4426.tex.

[yihui]

Did you restart RStudio after installing tinytex? If you did, could you follow the instructions at rstudio/bookdown#536 (comment) and report the detailed error message? Thanks!

Originally posted on 2018-03-05 19:16:16

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Guest *kobayashi maru* @ 2020-06-09 12:50:03 originally posted:

Hi Yihui, I have gone through numerous blogs and installation methods, however I still get error when installing tinytex. error is as follows:

Error in download.file(url, output, ..., method = method) :
cannot open URL 'https://github.com/yihui/tinytex/raw/master/tools/texlive.profile'

I am using windows 10. i also tried the code

devtools::install_github('yihui/tinytex')
tinytex:::install_prebuilt()

any guidance on how to deal with this error?

thanks
hiren

[yihui]

Sounds like you were using a very old version of the R package tinytex. After you install the Github version, did you restart your R session?

Originally posted on 2020-06-09 14:27:57

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Guest *kobayashi maru* @ 2020-06-10 04:49:30 originally posted:

Hi Yihui,

Yes i did restart numerous times. Is there anyother way i can install the package?

[yihui]

You only need to restart once. Installing from CRAN should suffice (no need to install from Github, although it's harmless). What's your xfun::session_info('tinytex')?

Originally posted on 2020-06-10 19:44:45

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Guest *Eric* @ 2020-06-28 17:46:53 originally posted:

Thank you so much Yihui. I really appreciate your work on this package.

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Guest *Stammering Mathematician* @ 2020-07-14 10:11:28 originally posted:

Hello. How do I actually use it after installing. I am on Linux OS. What command should I write in Terminal.

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Guest *Alex* @ 2020-07-24 18:45:06 originally posted:

How to update TinyTeX ? specifically on Mac OS X? if I get a new installation, things are deleted from the tlmgr settings and it's rather annoying.

[yihui]

It depends on what you mean by "update". It could be either tinytex::tlmgr_update() or tinytex::reinstall_tinytex(). For the latter, the installed packages will be reinstalled, but none of your settings will be kept (I'm not sure what kind of settings you meant).

Originally posted on 2020-07-25 14:13:29

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Guest *Guilherme Parreira* @ 2020-07-29 20:45:18 originally posted:

Hi There! I installed the package tinytex via terminal on my Ubuntu 20.04

When I compiled my file to PDF, it appears **"! LaTeX Error: File memoir.cls' not found."** So, I tried tlmgr search --global --file "/memoir.cls"`
And I got:

(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
/usr/bin/tlmgr: unexpected return value from verify_checksum: -5

when I tried tlmgr update --self --all`` I also got the same error.
What should I do?

[yihui]

First, you are not using TinyTeX but Ubuntu's TeX Live. Second, I don't think your R packages are up-to-date: https://yihui.org/tinytex/r/#debugging

Originally posted on 2020-07-30 00:32:37

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Guest *Guilherme Parreira* @ 2020-07-30 18:20:11 originally posted:

Thanks! It worked

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Guest *Guilherme Parreira* @ 2020-07-30 19:07:47 originally posted:

tks! you are a genius!

I did tinytex::tlmgr_update() and tinytex::install_prebuilt()

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Guest *Guilherme Parreira* @ 2020-12-14 18:31:04 originally posted:

Hi! After compiling my .Rmd file to PDF Beamer via tinytex, I get:

LaTeX Warning: There were undefined references.
Package biblatex Warning: Please (re)run Biber on the file:
(biblatex) teste_pres
(biblatex) and rerun LaTeX afterwards.

So, how can I (re)run Biber on the file teste_pres?
I saw on internet that they had to install another lib. But I am sure that there is a easier way from tinytex

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Guest *Alyssa* @ 2020-12-30 02:54:10 originally posted:

Hi - I am trying to install TinyTex for a class. I get an install error on the console that I see is well documented online, but when I go to use the sudo chown command in the terminal tab and enter my correct system password I am getting an error that says:

chown: whomami: illegal user name

I have not seen this covered on any other forum, any idea how to get around this? I've tried creating a new user on my Mac OS and get the same error regardless.

[yihui]

What is the exact command that you ran? Chances are you missed the backticks around whoami: rstudio/tinytex#24 (comment)

Originally posted on 2020-12-30 05:46:10

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Guest *Alyssa* @ 2020-12-30 15:59:28 originally posted:

The exact command I ran mirrors the suggestion:

sudo chown -R 'whoami':admin /usr/local/bin (disqus is not allowing me to upload the screenshot, but here is the exact text):

sudo chown -R 'whoami':admin /usr/local/bin
Password:
chown: whoami: illegal user name

[yihui]

You should not have typed the command manually. Please copy and paste it from the link I mentioned above. In your case, you typed single quotes instead of backticks, which completely changed the meaning of the command.

Originally posted on 2020-12-30 20:33:14

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Guest *Rafael Peixoto* @ 2021-02-11 22:16:07 originally posted:

Hi,
I've installed tinyTex and everything looks fine. I'm able to generate a PDF file with tinytex::pdflatex().
But when I try to "Compile PDF" in a .Rnw document, Rstudio tries to compile with MikTex, which is also installed in my computer.
How can I set Rstudio to use tinytex instead of MikTex. I don't wanna unistall Miktex because I use it with TexStudio.

Thanks.

[yihui]

This RStudio issue has been resolved recently. Please see rstudio/tinytex#10 (comment) and try the daily build of RStudio.

Originally posted on 2021-02-11 23:23:29

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访客 *Kimki Pang* @ 2021-03-22 03:26:28 写道：

学长，我安装了tinytex, 但是还是没法生成pdf. 请问这是什么原因啊？
Sorry, but C:UsersKKAppDataLocalProgramsMiKTeXmiktexbinx64pdflatex.exe did not succeed.

! The log file hopefully contains the information to get MiKTeX going again:

! C:UsersKKAppDataLocalMiKTeXmiktexlogpdflatex.log

Error: LaTeX failed to compile STAT-Project1-KK.tex. See

@JinjiPang

[yihui]

抱歉 MiKTeX 的问题我无法解答，你可以试试 TinyTeX；安装方法请往上翻到顶。

——原帖发布于 2021-03-22 05:24:35

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Guest *adaq* @ 2021-03-28 20:52:42 originally posted:

I installed tinytex with the following command
wget -qO- "<https://yihui.org/tinytex/install-bin-unix.sh>" | sh
and now I see .TinyTex in my home directory. How do I actually install into R? Right now my R has an old TinyTex package (0.12) and I need to update it to 0.16

[yihui]

To update R packages, you can run update.packages(): https://yihui.org/tinytex/r/#debugging

Originally posted on 2021-03-30 15:45:59

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Guest *Ivan* @ 2021-09-05 10:32:00 originally posted:

Hi Yihui

If we have full latex installation before we install R/Rstudio/bookdown, do we still need to install tinytex in R?

Let say that on mac I have already TeX Live installation that I use frequently; do I still have to install tinytex for R/RStudio/bookdown?

[yihui]

No, you don't.

Originally posted on 2021-09-05 13:07:34

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Guest *Hanqi Luo* @ 2021-09-09 18:50:08 originally posted:

Hi I got an error message trying to use "escape = F"

! Misplaced noalign.
midrule ->noalign
{ifnum 0=`}fi @aboverulesep =aboverulesep global @...
l.196 end{tabular}}

Error: LaTeX failed to compile test.tex. See https://yihui.org/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips. See test.log for more info.
Execution halted

Could you please help me debug?

Thank you

[yihui]

Sorry, but I can't help before you read and follow the debugging tips in the error message. The information you provided was too little.

Originally posted on 2021-09-09 20:39:23

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Guest *Abbas* @ 2022-01-31 20:25:53 originally posted:

after including library(kableExtra) to the rmarkdown, i recive the following message which crashes the markdown:
! LaTeX Error: File `multirow.sty' not found.
even after running the following code still the problem persists:
tinytex::tlmgr_install("multirow")

[kjayhan]

I use Rstudio on my both Mac and Windows (files on the cloud).

While I am able to render my Quarto file (a journal article draft) into a pdf on my Mac, it does not render on Windows. The error message is as follows:

"running xelatex - 1
This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-0.999993 (TeX Live 2021/W32TeX) (preloaded format=xelatex)
restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode

updating tlmgr

updating existing packages
finding package for setspace.sty

compilation failed- no matching packages
LaTeX Error: File `setspace.sty' not found.

Type X to quit or to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)

Enter file name:
! Emergency stop.
<read *>

l.14 \usepackage
{iftex}^^M
"

The following and other related advice did not work:

tinytex::parse_install(here::here("myfile.log")).

$ tlmgr search --global --file "/setspace.sty"
psnfss:
texmf-dist/tex/latex/psnfss/setspace.sty

How can I work around this?

[kjayhan]

I updated ALL packages including TinyTex, but it didn't help. I will try installing iftex tomorrow (when I have access to my Windows computer).

[kjayhan]

I reinstalled "tinytex", but couldn't install "iftex" since the latter was not available for my R version (4.2.1).

For tinytext, I got this message:

There is a binary version available but the source version is later:
binary source needs_compilation
tinytex 0.43 0.44 FALSE

[yihui]

I meant TinyTeX, not tinytex: https://yihui.org/tinytex/#for-r-users

To reinstall TinyTeX, see: https://yihui.org/tinytex/r/#debugging

BTW, iftex is a LaTeX package, not an R package. You can't use install.packages() to install it. And I'm not sure if @Teddy-van-Jerry's guess was correct. In theory, you shouldn't need to deal with any missing LaTeX packages when you are using TinyTeX: https://yihui.org/tinytex/r/#compile-latex-documents

[kjayhan]

Thank you for the suggestions. I will try running them on my Windows next time I have access to it.

For the time being I have a similar problem both on my Mac and Windows.

I am using this template for writing a manuscript: https://github.com/ajnafa/project-template

It always tells me

compilation failed- package installation error
Package fontspec Error: The font "FontAwesome" cannot be found.

I did everything on the links you sent (installing TinyTex, updating packages, tinytex::tlmgr_update() etc.), tinytex::parse_install, as well as getting the extension for FontAwesome (in addition to the R package).

Nothing solves the problem (except removing fontawesome lines from Manuscript_Template.tex file (which leaves me without the author names etc.).

I am a novice to working with Latex files as you can tell, so the learning curve is steep to change even a font (especially when it involves -orcid, github etc.- logos).

[kjayhan]

Reinstalling TinyTex did solve the "setspace.sty" problem on my Windows, thank you.

But Macbook still cannot find FontAwesome which may be because the author of that template actually uses MikTex.

[Godric-Wang]

Hi Yihui,

我是tinytex的mac用户，最近我想为公司的一台电脑安装tinytex，但是公司非常注重数据的安全问题，目前电脑并没有也不允许连接网络，我已经通过password protected的USB成功安装了R和Rstudio，和里面需要的必要package， 但是tinytex是一个LaTex的distribution，你提供的下载和安装方式要么是通过R studio或者通过bash或者powershell联网实现，想问一下我能否在自己的mac上下载windows版本的TinyTex，然后通过USB转移进去后离线安装么？可以提供一下我这种情况的详细教程吗？公司电脑是windows版本

提前感谢你的解答！

[yihui]

TinyTeX 是可移植的，所以自然可以用 USB 拷贝。参见常见问题 9：https://yihui.org/tinytex/faq/#faq-9