> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://ayakaleaf-pro.mintlify.site/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # TeX Live in Docker ### Docker Docker provides a lightweight and portable way to package and run applications in isolated containers. By bundling the application together with all required dependencies, a container ensures consistent behavior across different machines, from laptops to production servers. TeX Live is powerful but large and sensitive to system-level differences. Packaging TeX Live inside a Docker image makes the LaTeX toolchain predictable, reproducible, and easy to distribute. However, some TeX Live packages rely on shell access. For security reasons, the container should run in a restricted environment that prevents users from executing arbitrary shell commands (for example via `\write18` or shell escape). This isolation protects the host system and avoids unintended access to the container’s underlying filesystem or tools such as `bash`. ### TeXLive Full Edition [TeXLive-Full@ayaka-notes](https://github.com/ayaka-notes/texlive-full/) is a fully-featured **TeXLive Docker image** designed for sandboxed LaTeX compilation in [Ayakaleaf Pro](https://github.com/ayaka-notes/ayakaleaf-pro), [Overleaf CEP](https://github.com/yu-i-i/overleaf-cep), or standalone LaTeX compilation environments. This image aims to provide an almost complete TeXLive distribution with common fonts and tools preinstalled, in order to minimize compilation failures caused by missing packages or fonts. Notes: This Docker Image **doesn't contain** any sharelatex/overleaf component. It's used for Overleaf/Overleaf Pro's compile. #### Features: * πŸš€ Support Both x86\_64 and arm64 server architectures * πŸ“¦ Full and Optimized TeXLive installation * 🧩 Preinstalled common fonts and utilities * 🐳 Ready to use with Docker and Docker Compose * πŸ§ͺ Tested with Overleaf Server Pro / Overleaf Pro * πŸ”„ Regularly Updated with Latest TeXLive Releases * 🏷 Multiple TeXLive Version tags (2020 – Latest) * πŸ§‘β€πŸ”¬ Knitr support for R code in LaTeX documents ### Ayakaleaf Pro Usage TeX Live Full by Ayaka-notes is specially designed for [ayakaleaf-pro](https://github.com/ayaka-notes/ayakaleaf-pro), you can use the following environment variables to `config/variables.env` file if you are [toolkit user](https://github.com/overleaf/toolkit). For example: ```dotenv title="config/variables.env" wrap theme={null} ALL_TEX_LIVE_DOCKER_IMAGES=ghcr.io/ayaka-notes/texlive-full:2026.1, ghcr.io/ayaka-notes/texlive-full:2025.1 ALL_TEX_LIVE_DOCKER_IMAGE_NAMES=Texlive 2026, Texlive 2025 TEX_LIVE_DOCKER_IMAGE=ghcr.io/ayaka-notes/texlive-full:2026.1 ``` ### TeX Live Version Thanks to Github Action, we can build all tex image parallel, which includes: * `ghcr.io/ayaka-notes/texlive-full:2026.1` (Also `latest` tag) * `ghcr.io/ayaka-notes/texlive-full:2025.1` * `ghcr.io/ayaka-notes/texlive-full:2024.1` * `ghcr.io/ayaka-notes/texlive-full:2023.1` * `ghcr.io/ayaka-notes/texlive-full:2022.1` * `ghcr.io/ayaka-notes/texlive-full:2021.1` * `ghcr.io/ayaka-notes/texlive-full:2020.1` * `ghcr.io/ayaka-notes/texlive-full:base` We use mirror archive from [texlive info](https://texlive.info/tlnet-archive/), which includes almost all texlive image ranging from 1996 to 2025. And thanks to Overleaf's Dockerfile, we can build this project faster. > Why TeX Live 2019 and earlier are not supported ? > > Maintaining these old images is extremely difficult. Also, the [texlive.info](https://texlive.info/) website does not provide information for TeX Live versions released before 2019, so we are unable to build images for those versions. If you need a specific old version, please open an issue and let us know. ### Contained Component The following packages are contained in the docker image. * All TeXLive packages(in that year) * R packages(only selected) * fontconfig inkscape pandoc python3-pygments wget python3 * gnupg gnuplot perl-modules perl ca-certificates * ghostscript qpdf r-base-core tar The following fonts are contained in the docker image. * [Google Fonts](https://fonts.google.com/) * [Microsoft msttcorefonts](https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/ttf-mscorefonts-installer) * [Overleaf supported fonts](https://www.overleaf.com/learn/latex/Questions/Which_OTF_or_TTF_fonts_are_supported_via_fontspec%3F) Please confirm whether the relevant fonts can be used commercially. We are **not responsible** for any legal issues arising from your incorrect use of fonts. Once you download image, You agree with this automatically. ### License MIT ### Problems When overleaf compile latex project, if font miss occurs, **you may find the compile progress takes a long time**, that is because when a font is miss, texlive will try to **rebuild the whole font cache**. This is a time-consuming process. In our image, we have pre-built the font cache, we fix this problem by [this commit](https://github.com/ayaka-notes/texlive-full/commit/0cb66b0dc8b82be628cf6999cfd659d9784e132f) When you use this image in sharelatex, you may find that the sync tex is extremely slow. See: [https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf/issues/1150](https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf/issues/1150), just disable http 2.0. If you use texlive official image on docker hub `texlive/texlive`, you may find that when you re-compile a project, it will report error. However, in our image, this problem is fixed. Becase we use latest ubuntu base image and install all dependencies from ubuntu official repo. ### Other Tech Reminder While build texlive image(before 2019), you may need to pay attention to the following problems: * Only `http`/`ftp` is supported before texlive 2017, so you can't use `https` to download, unless you modify the `peal` script. * Before 2015, only sha256 file is provided. So you can't use sha512 to check. This documentation is built and hosted on [Mintlify](https://mintlify.com), a developer documentation platform.