XeLaTeX not available on Clean Install

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install with overleaf toolkit (it installs v2.5.0)
2. Create a sample minimal document or open the example.
3. Change the compiler to xelatex
4. Compile and the error message will appear (without details or any logs in the log div)
5. 

Expected Behaviour

The file should compile in XeLaTeX.

Observed Behaviour

The file does not compile in XeLaTeX. It does compile in pdfLaTeX

Context

No output :(

Technical Info

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Thanks in advance for your help! Btw, how can I compile the sharelatex/sharelatex docker container myself? I can't find the source for it. The dockerfile in this repo shows sharelatex/sharelatex as base (from the Docker hub, but no source definition file)

Same issue with PDFLaTeX. Any fix? It just hangs like that for 2 minutes and then becomes:

So it just worked. Turns out the sqlite database was set to readonly. Running sudo chown www-data:www-data -R <data-dir> worked.

On my container the folder is already owned by www-data. I also tried to chown again and the data folder itself in order to own files, that do not belong to www-data, but no change. Did you try something else, that fixed the issue but became effective only after a restart?

I looked a bit deeper into the issue..

1. sudo docker exec -it sharelatex bash
2. ll /usr/local/texlive/2020/bin/x86_64-linux/

You will see there is latexmk, lualatex but no xelatex.

Also compiling from the cli with /usr/local/texlive/2020/bin/x86_64-linux/latexmk -xelatex main.tex from your compile folder root@c44a552b20c8:/var/lib/sharelatex/data/compiles/<hashhere># will result in the output:

Latexmk: This is Latexmk, John Collins, 29 September 2020, version: 4.70b.
Latexmk: applying rule 'xelatex'...                                       
Rule 'xelatex': The following rules & subrules became out-of-date:        
      'xelatex'                                                           
------------                                                              
Run number 1 of rule 'xelatex'                                            
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Running 'xelatex -no-pdf -recorder  "main.tex"'                           
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sh: 1: xelatex: not found                                                 
Latexmk: fls file doesn't appear to have been made.                       
Latexmk: Examining 'main.log'                                             
=== TeX engine is 'LuaHBTeX'                                              
Latexmk: Index file 'main.idx' was written                                
Latexmk: Errors, so I did not complete making targets                     
Collected error summary (may duplicate other messages):                   
  xelatex: Command for 'xelatex' gave return code 127                     
      Refer to 'main.log' for details                                     
----------------------                                                    
This message may duplicate earlier message.                               
Latexmk: Failure in processing file 'main.tex':                           
   *LaTeX didn't generate the expected log file 'main.log'                

Obviously the binary is not bundle in this release of texlive 2020 :cry: Interesting is also the "became out of date" for xelatex.

EDIT: Sometimes it is hard to identify an issue and there is a very easy fix.. The same way you install packages to your latex environment you can also provide the xelatex (xetex) package:

sudo docker exec sharelatex tlmgr install xetex
sudo bin/stop && sudo bin/up -d

Worked for me :)

@devs As xelatex is a compile option from the UI list, I would suggest, to include the package into the base installation of the container.

Thank you for investigation. I am using XeLaTeX, too and wonderd why it doesn't work on a clean install

It is the same for me

When I'm using latexmk, latexmk -xelatex is not available at all

I had to use the apt command to install it and its dependencies

apt-get update
apt-get install texlive-xetex texlive-latex-extra texlive-science

Error log

# latexmk -pvc -xelatex -gg -silent csuthesis_main                                                            Rc files read:
  NONE
======= Need to update make_preview_continuous for target files
Viewing pdf
Latexmk: Run number 1 of rule 'xelatex'
sh: 1: xelatex: not found
Latexmk: fls file doesn't appear to have been made.
Latexmk: Getting log file 'csuthesis_main.log'
Latexmk: Couldn't read log file 'csuthesis_main.log':
  No such file or directory
Latexmk: *LaTeX didn't generate the expected log file 'csuthesis_main.log'
    ==> You will need to change a source file before I do another run <==
Collected error summary (may duplicate other messages):
  xelatex: Run of rule 'xelatex' gave a non-zero error code

=== Watching for updated files. Use ctrl/C to stop ...

Will this be added to the packages some day? :sweat_smile:

Thanks for the ping. I've created an internal ticket for this. Unfortunately, I cannot give any estimate if or when this gets included in a release.

Hello,

In case you missed this in the release notes. Overleaf Community Edition and Server Pro version 4.2 onwards includes XeLaTeX in the minimal TeXLive installation.

Greetings, Jakob