Dockerfile for TexStudio

build.sh

docker build -t texstudio https://gist.github.com/tscholl2/a4e7d775107374422e71e43376d60cf5.git

Dockerfile

FROM debian:stretch

# setup: language and ensure that external fonts and doc folders exists
RUN export LANG=C.UTF-8 &&\
    mkdir -p /usr/share/fonts/external/ &&\
    mkdir /doc/

# install utilities, texlive, ghostscript, and remove unused docs
RUN apt-get clean &&\
    apt-get update &&\
    apt-get autoclean -y &&\
    apt-get autoremove -y &&\
    apt-get update &&\
    apt-get install -f -y apt-utils \
                          ghostscript \
                          make \
                          xzdec \
                          texlive-full \
                          texlive-fonts-extra \
                          texlive-fonts-recommended \
                          texlive-math-extra \
                          texlive-luatex \
                          texlive-pstricks \
                          texlive-science \
                          texlive-xetex &&\
    apt-get purge -f -y make-doc \
                        texlive-fonts-extra-doc \
                        texlive-fonts-recommended-doc \
                        texlive-humanities-doc \
                        texlive-latex-base-doc \
                        texlive-latex-extra-doc \
                        texlive-latex-recommended-doc \
                        texlive-metapost-doc \
                        texlive-pictures-doc \
                        texlive-pstricks-doc \
                        texlive-science-doc &&\
    apt-get clean &&\
    apt-get autoclean -y &&\
    apt-get autoremove -y --purge &&\
    apt-get clean &&\
    rm -rf /tmp/* /var/tmp/* &&\
    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* &&\
    rm -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*

# install texstudio pre-reqs
RUN apt-get update &&\
    apt-get install -f -y xzdec \
                          libpoppler-qt5-1 \
                          libqt5concurrent5 \
                          libqt5core5a \
                          libqt5gui5 \
                          libqt5network5 \
                          libqt5printsupport5 \
                          libqt5script5 \
                          libqt5svg5 \
                          libqt5widgets5 \
                          libqt5xml5 \
                          wget \
                          default-jre &&\
    apt-get clean &&\
    apt-get autoclean -y &&\
    apt-get autoremove -y --purge &&\
    apt-get clean &&\
    rm -rf /tmp/* /var/tmp/* &&\
    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* &&\
    rm -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*

# install texstudio
RUN wget -O texstudio.deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jsundermeyer/Debian_9.0/amd64/texstudio_2.12.10-1+1.1_amd64.deb &&\
    dpkg -i texstudio.deb &&\
    rm texstudio.deb

# install language tool server
RUN wget -O lt.zip https://languagetool.org/download/LanguageTool-3.8.zip &&\
    mkdir -p /home/user/languagetool &&\
    unzip -d /home/user/languagetool lt.zip &&\
    rm lt.zip

# make a new unprivileged user to use stuff
# the 1001 maps to the uid/gid of the user
# on the actual machine, if the docker user
# is the same, there are no terrible permission
# issues when editing files in either docker
# or locally.
RUN useradd -u 1001 user &&\
    mkdir -p /home/user/texmf &&\
    chown -R 1001:1001 /home/user
USER user
WORKDIR /home/user

# this is required to install new tex packages
RUN tlmgr init-usertree &&\
    tlmgr update --all

# example of how to install new packages
RUN tlmgr install units logreq biblatex

CMD ["/usr/bin/texstudio"]

run.sh

xhost + && docker run \
  --cap-drop=all \
  -it \
  --rm \
  -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
  -v $HOME/stuff:/home/user/Documents \
  -v $HOME/.config/texstudio:/home/user/.config/texstudio \
  -e DISPLAY=unix$DISPLAY \
  --memory=2g \
  --cpus=2 \
  --name texstudio \
  texstudio