Dockerized MiKTeX

This image allows you to run MiKTeX on any computer that supports Docker.

Example

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

docker run -ti -v miktex:/var/lib/miktex -v `pwd`:/miktex/work -e MIKTEX_UID=`id -u` miktex/miktex:essential \
    pdflatex main.tex

Tags

• 23.10-essential, essential (essential variant)
• 23.10-basic, basic (basic variant)

Essential variant

The essential variant contains a bare MiKTeX system.

Basic variant

The basic variant contains the basic package set.

Volumes

MiKTeX files

MiKTeX is configured to install missing package files in the container directory /var/lib/miktex.

It is recommended that you mount this directory to a named Docker volume. This ensures that data (such as downloaded packages) survives the container.

Input files

The host directory containing the input files must be mounted to the container path /miktex/work.

User miktex

All commands inside the container are executed as user miktex and uid 1000.

It is possible to change the uid by setting the container environment variable MIKTEX_UID.

To execute as the current user, you would pass option -e MIKTEX_UID=$(id -u) to the Docker run command.