TexLive in PATH

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I tried to install TexLive via brew, but unfortunately i cant get it to work with the flatpak version of texstudio.
Brew installs texlive in a very weird path within its own homebrew directory. and also in a date named folder…
how can i get texlive installed in the normal PATH? is there a way of setting the path at install time via brew?

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I also tried to insert the brew path where texlive is installed into the PATH via Flatseal.
But Texstudio shows directly a message at startup that there is no TexLive installation found…
How can i get TexLive to work with the TeXSttudio Flatpak?

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I have installed texlive in a devcontainer and use VS Code for Editing. You could also create a distrobox with Ubuntu, where you install texstudio and texlive.

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I had success by installing TexLive Flatpak:
See the TexStudio Flathub instructions:

Requires either TeX Live being installed on the system from your distribution’s repositories or the TeX Live Flatpak which you can install by running flatpak install flathub org.freedesktop.Sdk.Extension.texlive//23.08

Hope that helps!

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This is a great tip!
My installation is flatpak-texstudio and texlive installed via brew.
I am glad to know there is flatpak native texlive solution.
Thanks for sharing.

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Yes! Its a tragedy that the 23.08 version doesn’t show up in the software app and you have to install it via CLI. Not sure why that is or who to address that with.

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Is that working for you?
Because that is what I have but doesn’t work for me…

I will try to install the texlice flatpak and see what gives…but it also didn’t work with the olde texlice versions in could find via software

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Flatpak-TexStudio is not working for me anymore. It launches but remains hidden somewhere.

I will go back to AppImage and wait until the flatpak gets fixed.

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just installed the TeXLive Falthub Extension and now TexStudio Flatpak directly compiles! for me now everything is ok so far.

there is a pendig PR for updating to TexLive 2024 but the Scripting doesnt work anymore because TexLive now doesnt ship DVDs on default. On that the Flathub Extension was based scripting wise…