Installation¶

ktex is published on PyPI. It is a command-line tool, so it is best installed in its own isolated environment with uv or pipx:

uv tool install ktex
# or
pipx install ktex

To try it without installing it:

uvx ktex --help

To upgrade: uv tool upgrade ktex or pipx upgrade ktex.

Requirements¶

Python ≥ 3.11;
a TeX distribution that provides, depending on your documents, pdflatex, xelatex or lualatex, and biber or bibtex, on the PATH.

ktex is developed and tested on Linux. It should work on macOS and other POSIX systems.

git clone https://github.com/kleag/ktex.git
uv tool install --editable ./ktex

With --editable, changes to the sources take effect immediately, with no reinstall.