A fully-featured TeXLive Docker image designed for sandboxed LaTeX compilation in Overleaf Pro, 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.
- 🚀 Support Both x86_64 and arm64 server architectures
- 📦 Full and Optimized TeXLive installation
- 🧩 Preinstalled common fonts and utilities
- 🐳 Ready to use with Docker and Docker Compose
- 🧪 Tested with Overleaf Server Pro / Overleaf Pro
- 🔄 Regularly Updated with Latest TeXLive Releases
- 🏷 Multiple TeXLive Version tags (2020 – Latest)
- 🧑🔬 Knitr support for R code in LaTeX documents
TeXLive Full by Ayaka-notes is specially designed for overleaf-pro, you can use the following environment variables to config/variables.env file if you are toolkit user.
For example:
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
If you need more help, refer to overleaf pro documentation
Thanks to Github Action, we can build all tex image parallel, which includes:
Tip
For China mainland users, you can replace ghcr.io with ghcr.nju.edu.cn to speed up the download. But DO NOT use ghcr.nju.edu.cn directly in your toolkit env settings. You should keep ghcr.io as your only choice.
| TeXLive Version | Base OS | Architecture | Docker Image | Release Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Ubuntu 24.04 | amd64 / arm64 |
ghcr.io/ayaka-notes/texlive-full:2026.1 |
Beta |
| 2025 | Ubuntu 24.04 | amd64 / arm64 |
ghcr.io/ayaka-notes/texlive-full:2025.1 |
Final |
| 2024 | Ubuntu 24.04 | amd64 / arm64 |
ghcr.io/ayaka-notes/texlive-full:2024.1 |
Final |
| 2023 | Ubuntu 22.04 | amd64 / arm64 |
ghcr.io/ayaka-notes/texlive-full:2023.1 |
Final |
| 2022 | Ubuntu 22.04 | amd64 / arm64 |
ghcr.io/ayaka-notes/texlive-full:2022.1 |
Final |
| 2021 | Ubuntu 20.04 | amd64 / arm64 |
ghcr.io/ayaka-notes/texlive-full:2021.1 |
Final |
| 2020 | Ubuntu 20.04 | amd64 / arm64 |
ghcr.io/ayaka-notes/texlive-full:2020.1 |
Final |
We use mirror archive from texlive info, which includes almost all texlive image ranging from 1996 to 2025. And thankes to Overleaf's Dockerfile, we can build this project faster.
Why texlive 2019 and earlier are not supported ?
To maintain such images is more than difficult. And we believe you may not use it any more since it's too old. If you need, open a issue to let me know.
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.
Warning
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.
MIT
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
When you use this image in sharelatex, you may find that the sync tex is extremely slow.
See: overleaf/overleaf#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.
If you use minted package in your latex project, you may find that a permission error preventing access to minted config file. Please see #131 for more details.
While build texlive image(before 2019), you may need to pay attention to the following problems:
- Only
http/ftpis supported before texlive 2017, so you can't usehttpsto download, unless you modify thepealscript. - Before 2015, only sha256 file is provided. So you can't use sha512 to check.
- (2026.3.12): Unified arm64 and amd64 images into a single OCI multi-architecture image.
- (2026.3.3): TexLive 2026.1 image has been released.
- (2026.2.1): We add a
texuser to align with Overleaf's default compile image. - (2026.1.21): Knitr has been added into the image, which can support R code compile in LaTeX document. To find out more, visit Using R with LaTeX on Overleaf
- (2024.4.17): A long time compile bug link #1 has been fixed now
- (2024.4.17): Texlive 2025 image has been added