Install Overleaf on Docker

To install overleaf, an essential toolkit called overleaf-toolkit is required. Before this, please ensure that Docker Engine has been installed.

git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/overleaf/toolkit.git ./overleaf-toolkit

Navigate to the project directory.

cd ./overleaf-toolkit

Initialize the service.

bin/init

Start the service.

bin/up -d

Open a browser, enter http://127.0.0.1/launchpad to configure the administrator account and password, then enter http://127.0.0.1/login to start using.

Install the full set of packages

Enter the shell of the image

bin/shell

Update all installed macro packages, including tlmgr itself. Then install the scheme-full package (all macro packages on CTAN)

tlmgr update --self --all
tlmgr install scheme-full

To install Chinese fonts, run the following commands:

apt update
apt install ttf-mscorefonts-installer  # 安装 Windows 字体
apt install inkscape python3-pygments  # 安装 TikZ & Syntax highlighter 依赖
apt install -y latex-cjk-all texlive-lang-chinese texlive-lang-english
apt install -y xfonts-wqy

ln -s /usr/local/texlive/2024/texmf-var/fonts/conf/texlive-fontconfig.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf
fc-cache -fsv

Also, you had better copy windows fonts to the docker image for better Chinese typesetting effects.

Suppose you have packed the Windows fonts into a gz file named windows-fonts.tar.gz, you can use the following command to copy it into the docker image and extract it:

docker cp windows-fonts.tar.gz sharelatex:/usr/local/share
docker exec -it sharelatex bash
cd /usr/local/share
tar -zxvf windows-fonts.tar.gz
mv /usr/local/share/windows-fonts/* /usr/local/share/fonts/winfonts/
cd /usr/local/share/fonts/winfonts
mkfontscale
mkfontdir
fc-cache -fsv

When finished, you can view the installed Chinese fonts using the command:

fc-list :lang=zh-cn