To create the Singularity container, run the command
singularity image.create -s 5000 ubuntu16.04-latex.img
sudo singularity build ubuntu16.04-latex.img Singularity
To connect to the Singularity image, run the command
> singularity shell ubuntu16.04-latex.img
Singularity: Invoking an interactive shell within container...
Singularity ubuntu16.04-latex.img:~/singularity-latex> which latex
/usr/bin/latex
Singularity ubuntu16.04-latex.img:~/singularity-latex> which pdftex
/usr/bin/pdftex
singularity-latex git:(master) ✗ singularity run --app pdftex ubuntu16.04-latex.simg --version
pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015/Debian)
kpathsea version 6.2.1
Copyright 2015 Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
There is NO warranty. Redistribution of this software is
covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and
the Lesser GNU General Public License.
For more information about these matters, see the file
named COPYING and the pdfTeX source.
Primary author of pdfTeX: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX).
Compiled with libpng 1.6.17; using libpng 1.6.17
Compiled with zlib 1.2.8; using zlib 1.2.8
Compiled with poppler version 0.41.0
singularity pull shub://icaoberg/singularity-latex
singularity pull --name customname.img shub://icaoberg/singularity-latex
singularity pull --commit shub://icaoberg/singularity-latex
singularity pull --hash shub://icaoberg/singularity-latex
I am nothing but a humble programmer creating the container for this wonderful app.
Copyleft © 2019 icaoberg at the Computational Biology Department in Carnegie Mellon University