how would you install it locally on Linux?

By using curl or wget command

curl or wget is used to download files, what do you use to install latex, like an apt-get command?

cd /tmp # working directory of your choice

Download: wget https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz

or: curl -L -o install-tl-unx.tar.gz https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz

(or via whatever other method you like)

zcat < install-tl-unx.tar.gz | tar xf - # note final - on that command line

cd install-tl-*

perl ./install-tl --no-interaction # as root or with writable destination

may take several hours to run

Finally, prepend /usr/local/texlive/YYYY/bin/PLATFORM to your PATH,

e.g., /usr/local/texlive/2024/bin/x86_64-linux

These are all steps to install latex

then you would want to write a Dockerfile so that you can runs those commands

I was thinking the same. Is there any other way to access the server through virtual machine

no, and if there was, that would not help, latex needs to be installed via build

Okay, thanks for the help

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