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 <martin@alsinet>

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


On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 10:23 AM Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 9:57 AM Christopher W Ryan <cryan@binghamton.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Would they need to install LaTeX too, or is org mode self-contained and
>> able to export to pdf without LaTeX an friends installed?
>>
>
> Yes, they'd need to have a LaTeX distribution installed on their system.
> In my experience, installing the full latest version of TexLive is the
> easiest way.
>
>
> --
>
> Kaushal Modi
>