How can I select the engine for portable Texmaker?

Question

I have a portable TexMaker in my memory.
Portable TexLive 2012 is installed on it too.
I want to make my documents with TexMaker using engine which in TexLive.

Answer 1

For Windows Users

Click on tl-tray-menu as shown in Portable Texlive.

For Linux Users

Note: You should have wine installed and configured.

For the sake of this discussion, assume that your TeXLive folder is named TeXLive2012.

USB Configuration

If the following is your USB file configuration:

USB folder
   |______texmakerwin32usb
   |______TeXLive2012

then fire up your portable TeXMaker by clicking on texmaker.exe inside the texmakerwin32usb folder and then set up the drivers by clicking:

Options > Configure Texmaker > Commands

Configuring PDF Viewer

Use the built-in viewer of Texmaker. Alternatively, you can download a portable PDF viewer of your liking and save to your USB. Then in PDF Viewer, click on the folder icon to browse to the location of the portable PDF viewer in your USB. For PS, see how to install ghostscript in the answers in Configuring portable TeXstudio to use MiKTeX portable

Configuring the Drivers

For each driver, click on the folder icons in the Commands configuration and browse to the location of the corresponding driver in the TeXLive2012 bin folder.

You should get something like this.

LaTeX > "../TeXLive2012/bin/latex" -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex
PdfLaTeX > "../TeXLive2012/bin/pdflatex" -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode %.tex
Latexmk > "../TeXLive2012/bin/latexmk" -e "$pdflatex=q/pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode/" -pdf %.tex
Bib(la)tex > "../TeXLive2012/bin/biber" %
Makeindex > "../TeXLive2012/bin/makeindex" %.idx
dvips > "../TeXLive2012/bin/dvips" -o %.ps %.dvi
Dvipdfm > "../TeXLive2012/bin/dvipdfm" %.dvi
ps2pdf > "../TeXLive2012/bin/ps2pdf" %.ps
metapost > "../TeXLive2012/bin/mpost" --interaction nonstopmode 

First Steps in Setting Up a Portable TeXLive for Linux

It's easiest to just download the .iso file and mount it.

3. Create TeXLive2012 in your USB root folder.

4. cd to the mounted directory. Usually

   cd /media/username/TeXLive2012 
   

   You can replace username by your actual username.

5. Type and enter

   perl install-tl -portable
   

6. Choose the directory by typing D then write the location of your USB:

   /media/username/usbname/TeXLive2012
   

   then hit Enter. You can specify every directory this way if you like. But since USB's are slow drives, you can choose to install it on a writable folder, say in your desktop then copy and paste the folder into your USB. I find it faster this way.

For Texmaker, simply unzip the folder to your root USB folder.

After doing this, you should have the file structure we have above.