[Tex/LaTex] Error: TexStudio “Could not start command”

installingmiktextexstudio

I just installed TeXstudio 2.5.2 and compiled the following

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\end{document}

but I get this error

Error: Could not start the command: "/usr/texbin/pdflatex" -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode "texstudio_qH5268".tex

I already installed MiKTeX, so why do I get this error?

Best Answer

Open TeXstudio and go to the Options menu.

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Then Configure TeXstudio. On the left panel choose the second item Commands.

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On the pdflatex field, fill it with the full path for your pdflatex.exe. For example, in Windows with MiKTeX, something similar to 

C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\pdflatex.exe

Don't forget to use double quotes with it. Then write %.tex to denote the current tex file.

In summary, you'll have something like this (ignoring highlights):

"C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\miktex\bin\x64\pdflatex.exe" %.tex

You can do the same to other tools, like dvips for example.