MiKTeX is available for selected operating systems. Please check the prerequisites in order to find out whether your system is supported.
If your system is not (yet) supported: it is not too difficult to build MiKTeX.
This repository contains self-made Solarized Dark/Light themes for TeXstudio. To use them, simply replace the formats section found in your TeXstudio settings file with code of preferred theme.
Install on Windows
Installer
To install a basic TeX/LaTeX system on Windows, download and run this installer.
Please read the tutorial, if you want step-by-step guidance.
- Will download all files including their history (back to 2009) and amounts to roughly 1.4Gb so that is quite large. Note: If you had bookmarked the old SVN repository please update that bookmark to the new GIT repository as we have finally removed it.
- Download TeXstudio for Mac to integrated environment for writing LaTeX documents.
Date: | 10/12/2020 |
File name: | basic-miktex-20.10-x64.exe |
Size: | 240.1 MB |
SHA-256: | cb9434d9ba0cedb480500f9bdfe437cd08fb57583704cabab5697e53bfba610b |
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Portable Edition
The portable edition allows you to run MiKTeX from a portable storage device.
Please read the tutorial, if you want step-by-step guidance.
Please note that there is no seperate installer. Just download the standard installer and rename it to
miktex-portable.exe
. Command-line installer
If you want to install MiKTeX on many client computers, then you should use the MiKTeX Setup Utility to deploy MiKTeX in your organization. You can read the deployment tutorial, if you want step-by-step guidance.
Date: | 6/29/2020 |
File name: | miktexsetup-4.0-x64.zip |
Size: | 2.4 MB |
SHA-256: | 9be965a35dc917dd6c901b816452bbf41ab4c88e24d90ac1de245f6edea2aa20 |
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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.
Date: | 10/12/2020 |
File name: | miktex-20.10-darwin-x86_64.dmg |
Size: | 53.82 MB |
SHA-256: | 64d72cb92aeda3c62b7bce4ef164f51a2367756bd10131e9860f1a6abab85cce |
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Install on Linux
MiKTeX is available for selected Linux distributions.
Installing MiKTeX on Linux involves these steps:
![Texstudio 2.12.22 mac Texstudio 2.12.22 mac](/uploads/1/1/8/8/118829963/698203977.png)
- Register the GPG key with which MiKTeX installation packages and metadata is signed. The key ID is:
D6BC243565B2087BC3F897C9277A7293F59E4889
- Register the installation source which contains the MiKTeX installation package. The installation source depends on the Linux distribution version.
- Use the package management system to install MiKTeX.
- Finish the setup.
- Upgrade your TeX distribution. This is an optional step.
Please click a tab to get instructions for your Linux distribution:
a. Register GPG key
b. Register installation source
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa):
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver):
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus):
c. Install MiKTeX
a. Register GPG key
b. Register installation source
Linux Mint 20:
Linux Mint 19:
Linux Mint 18:
c. Install MiKTeX
a. Register GPG key
b. Register installation source
Debian 9 (Stretch):
c. Install MiKTeX
a. Register GPG key
b. Register installation source
Fedora 32:
Fedora 30:
Fedora 28:
c. Install MiKTeX
a. Register GPG key
b. Register installation source
CentOS 8:
c. Install MiKTeX
a. Register GPG key
b. Register installation source
openSUSE Leap 15:
c. Install MiKTeX
d. Finish the setup
Before you can use MiKTeX, you have to finish the setup. You can use MiKTeX Console or, if you prefer the command line,
Start MiKTeX Console to finish the setupmiktexsetup
.Search&click the
MiKTeX Console
icon to start MiKTeX Console:Now is the time to make a decision:
Do you want to set up a private (for you only) TeX installation, or do you want to set up a shared (system-wide) TeX installation?
You probably want to choose the first option.
The second option makes sense if you are the administrator of a multi-user system. If this is the case and if you expect that some of your users would like to work with MiKTeX, then you should install MiKTeX system-wide.
Click one of the two buttons if you have made your decision.
Run miktexsetup
to finish the setupRun
to finish with a private (for you only) TeX installation. Executables like
lualatex
will be installed in ~/bin
.Run
to finish with a shafred (system-wide) TeX installation. Executables like
lualatex
will be installed in /usr/local/bin
.You also may want to enable automatic package installation:
Or, if you have a shared installation:
e. Upgrade
If you have just installed MiKTeX, then you have the option to upgrade your installation to a standard TeX system. Just click the
Upgrade
button. Please be aware that this starts a ~200MB download.Alternatively, you can turn on the auto-install feature and let MiKTeX install missing packages on-the-fly. This will help you to keep your TeX installation as minimal as possible (“Just enough TeX”).
See also
FAQ: Is it possible to install MiKTeX and TeX Live side-by-side?
Docker image
The Docker image allows you to run MiKTeX on any computer that supports Docker. You can obtain the image from Docker hub:
Latex Editor
Create a volume:
Provided that your main input file is located in the current working directory, you can run
pdflatex
as follows: Please read the tutorial, if you want step-by-step guidance.
Please beware that the Docker image is still in an experimental stage.
All downloads
To install a basic TeX/LaTeX system on Windows, download and run this installer.
Date: | 10/12/2020 |
File name: | basic-miktex-20.10-x64.exe |
Size: | 240.1 MB |
SHA-256: | cb9434d9ba0cedb480500f9bdfe437cd08fb57583704cabab5697e53bfba610b |
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To install a basic TeX/LaTeX system on Windows, download and run this installer.
Date: | 10/12/2020 |
File name: | basic-miktex-20.10.exe |
Size: | 232.56 MB |
SHA-256: | aeb6cf3bc78d4e46971594e100c8afaf39fdd12f68e302fdcdbc3e4937796916 |
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This installer allows you download all packages and install a complete TeX/LaTeX system on Windows.
Date: | 8/3/2020 |
File name: | setup-4.1-x64.exe |
Size: | 23.77 MB |
SHA-256: | 27b413f10144d8038bcc2e8920e2bfae8064e3f3d5abef01655b6953163c491a |
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This installer allows you download all packages and install a complete TeX/LaTeX system on Windows.
Date: | 10/12/2020 |
File name: | setup-4.1.1.exe |
Size: | 19.36 MB |
SHA-256: | 72964dd71aaff2681819d420f532ae3993b3f338841a43a16f68d4472756b2aa |
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The MiKTeX Setup Utility is used to download, install and uninstall MiKTeX using the command line.It is suitable for unattended setup tasks and can be regarded as the command line counterpart of the MiKTeX Setup Wizard.
Date: | 6/29/2020 |
File name: | miktexsetup-4.0-x64.zip |
Size: | 2.4 MB |
SHA-256: | 9be965a35dc917dd6c901b816452bbf41ab4c88e24d90ac1de245f6edea2aa20 |
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The MiKTeX Setup Utility is used to download, install and uninstall MiKTeX using the command line.It is suitable for unattended setup tasks and can be regarded as the command line counterpart of the MiKTeX Setup Wizard.
Date: | 6/29/2020 |
File name: | miktexsetup-4.0.zip |
Size: | 2.08 MB |
SHA-256: | f85c47e92360b9089fe854896f6f156cee21ec263b3a0603988880750ab50d54 |
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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: | 10/12/2020 |
File name: | miktex-20.10-darwin-x86_64.dmg |
Size: | 53.82 MB |
SHA-256: | 64d72cb92aeda3c62b7bce4ef164f51a2367756bd10131e9860f1a6abab85cce |
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Download MiKTeX source code if you want to incorporate MiKTeX into your own software product.
Date: | 10/12/2020 |
File name: | miktex-20.10.tar.xz |
Size: | 25.19 MB |
SHA-256: | e20ac5afd081485ad968b2f496b6c0a74f0da671801507321088882aafda748b |
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Tex Studio Installer
Short Answer
1.- Go to the TeXstudio portal
2.- Download the installation files
3.- Install
4.- Configure (see below)
More Details
The choice of a LaTeX editor can be more difficult and subjective than the choice of a LaTeX/TeX distribution. To start, there are a lot more options for LaTeX editors than for LaTeX/TeX distributions. To have an idea of how many, check this Wikipedia article. The basic features I look for in a LaTeX editor are command autocompletion, spell checking, free to use and easy configuration of the compilation process. In principle, you should get the same final document independently of the LaTeX editor that you use. This is because TeX, not the LaTeX editor that you use, is the program that actually typeset the final document and TeX is the same everywhere. If you have read the document that we will be creating in this tutorial then you should already be aware of this. The bottom line is that you can choose any LaTeX editor but there are some that will make your life easier.
TeXstudio
Texstudio Download For Macbook Pro
Currently, TeXstudio is my first choice for a LaTeX editor. It has all the features mentioned before and I like the clean interface. In addition, I found really helpful the image thumbnails shown when placing the mouse over an image entry in the tex document.
Before installing Texstudio, check if your LaTeX/TeX distribution already installed it on your computer. If this is not the case, just follow these steps:
1.- Go to the TeXstudio portal and download the installation files
The web page will autodetect your operating system and will show you a direct download link for the installer. If this is not the case, just go to the download section and select the installer suited for you.
2.- Install
I always leave all the default settings when installing TeXstudio. But just in case, read the on-screen messages to make sure that everything makes sense and just press next, next, install, finish.
3.- Configuring TeXstudio
The final step is to configure the custom compilation process of the tex documents.
To do this, open the Preferences menu of TeXstudio. Then, select Build in the list to the right on the newly created window. The command you want to modify is Build & View, the first one in the Meta Commands list in the center of the Configure TeXstudio window. You can modify the command if you click on the wrench to the right of the command. In the Quick Build Command window just opened, delete everything in the list to the right by selecting the items and them using the Delete button below the list. Then, from the list to the left select and Add to the list on the right the following commands, in this same order: PdfLaTeX, BibTeX, PdfLaTeX, PdfLaTeX and PS Viewer. The order of the commands is important.
Texstudio For Mac
It is recommended to leave the Default Bibliography Tool as BibTeX.
Download Texstudio For Mac
Just in case, find an image below of how the Configure TeXstudio and Quick Build Command windows should look like after all the options have been set.
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