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How to tell between MiKTeX and TeX Live?
Assuming you have both TeX Live and MiKTeX installed, they would each have a directory in the PATH. You can find out which one is your “default” by typing tex –version in the command line. Whichever one is your “default” comes first in the PATH.
How to change the default path in texlive?
You can find out which one is your “default” by typing tex –version in the command line. Whichever one is your “default” comes first in the PATH. To change the default, you need to switch the order of these two directories in the PATH. Whenever you’re meddling with the PATH, be extremely careful! Here are two ways of doing this:
How does Windows know where pdfLaTeX is in texlive?
When you compile a document foo.tex with, say, pdflatex through Texmaker, what happens “internally” is that in foo.tex ’s directory, pdflatex foo.tex (probably with a few options) is called, as if on the command line. But how does Windows know where pdflatex is?
What are the advantages of using TeX Live?
Not completely unrelated, TeX Live is designed to support multi-user systems, including being installed on a servers and used on network clients, possibly with mixed architectures and OSes. (Which may be totally irrelevant to the OP, but mentioned only for information.)
Do you have to adapt PATH variable in MikTeX?
You must adapt the PATH-variable if you want to use the “other” system. This should work fine. I have a small TeX Live-like LuaTeX-system for testing and it can even share some roots with my main MiKTeX, MiKTeX doesn’t complain about the ls-R-files lying around.
Is there a way to update MiKTeX on Windows?
Note on macOS and Linux: This answer is written with Windows in mind, but MikTeX offers the same graphical user interfaces on the other operating systems, too! Consult the MikTeX docs to get to know how to open them. MiKTex can be updated with 2 methods.
When do I need to update my TeXLive package?
This system, however comes at a cost: once a new binary version of TeX Live is available, package updates for the previous years are no longer available. This means that if you have e.g. TeXLive 2011, you can update its packages roughly until TeXLive 2012 is created.