MiKTeX Tools
The MiKTeX Tools project is an attempt to port some of the MiKTeX utilities
to other platforms.
What has been done
MiKTeX-pdfTeX: the MiKTeX variant of the pdfTeX engine features integrated package
management: missing packages will be installed on-the-fly (after confirmation).
The binary is installed as miktex-pdftex so that it can coexist with the pdftex
binary installed by the system package manager.
MPM: you use the MiKTeX package manager to install packages.
How to install
Binary packages are available for i386 GNU/Linux systems:
How to use MiKTeX-pdfTeX
You invoke MiKTeX-pdfTeX as follows:
miktex-pdftex --undump=latex sample2e
The --undump option must be used to specify the
format. See the
MiKTeX-pdfTeX reference page, for more information.
If you prefer shortcuts, you can create symbolic links to the
MiKTeX-pdfTeX engine:
mkdir ~/bin
cd ~/bin
ln -s /usr/bin/miktex-pdftex latex
ln -s /usr/bin/miktex-pdftex pdflatex
PATH=~/bin:$PATH
Then you can invoke the engine in the usual way:
pdflatex sample2e
Of course, you can replace ~/bin with a more
suitable directory.
Source code
Source code is available so that you can build MiKTeX Tools from scratch: