Hello Christopher
I have a docker image with LaTeX installed in order not to "pollute" my local filesystem with the 4GB of additional libraries a full LaTeX installation requires.
If your co-worker is a software developer you could use that approach.
Here is mi Dockerfile for LaTeX:
FROM ubuntu:xenial
MAINTAINER Martin Alsinet <address@hidden>
ENV DEBIAN_FRONTEND noninteractive
RUN apt-get update -q
RUN apt-get install -y texlive-full gnuplot python-pygments
RUN apt-get clean
RUN rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
Save that in a file named Dockerfile in a blank folder and run docker build -t latex .
This will create a docker image named latex with all the libraries and executables neatly tucked away.
Then, in order to use it, you can save the following script in ~/bin/pdflatex
#!/bin/sh
export PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin
docker run --rm \
-v $(pwd):$(pwd) \
-v ~/.ssh:/root/.ssh \
-w $(pwd) \
latex \
pdflatex $@
rm *.log *.aux
rm -f *.ent
rm -Rf _minted-*
With that you can use the pdflatex command as usual, and docker creates a temporary container (docker run --rm ...) from the image, runs the pdflatex command and removes the container after execution.
bash-3.2$ pdflatex --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
rm: *.log: No such file or directory
rm: *.aux: No such file or directory
Martin