How to set up an Azure DevOps pipeline with texlive?

Question

I have a repo with LaTeX .tex files. In every commit I would like a pipeline to create PDF with them.

I have created a pipeline with the pdflatex main.tex command.

However, texlive is not installed in the vm. So I get the error:

/home/.../f170215a.sh: line 2: pdflatex: command not found

How to go around that? Are there options of cloud based VMs in Azure with texlive installed? Or do I have to create my own VM for that?

The pipeline yaml is as follows:

trigger:
- master
pool:
  vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'
steps:
- bash: | 
    echo Starting pdflatex
    pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode main.tex
    echo Done pdflatex.

Answer 1

First part solved by installing the requirements in the pipeline script:

sudo apt-get install texlive

The yml pipeline looks like this:

trigger:
- master
pool:
  vmImage: 'ubuntu-latest'
steps:
- bash: | 
    sudo apt-get install texlive     
    echo Starting pdflatex
    pdflatex -interaction=nonstopmode main.tex
    echo Done pdflatex.

Now I just need to retrieve the pdf file. But that's another topic =)