[Tex/LaTex] How to install and use arara package

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I am interested in using "arara" package.
According to it's manual my below code should run without any error:

% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
Hello world.
\end{document}

but I get nothing and have problem with this code.
It should be mentioned that I install Java after installing LaTeX.
Error:

Process started: "C:/texlive/2015/bin/win32/arara.exe"

C:\texlive\2015\bin\win32\runscript.tlu:680:
C:\texlive\2015\bin\win32\runscript.tlu:650: program not found (not
part of TeX Live): java.exe

Process exited with error(s)

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I am composing this answer after gathering the comments of daleif, hossein-behboodi, nicola-talbot, cmhughes

Basically, if arara fails to work, one must check if we can run Java from the command line (DOS prompt for Windows).

java -version

If it fails install Java. Things will start working. If not, see How to get arara working with TeXstudio.

nicola-talbot says Only JRE is required. JDK is for compiling the Java code. The JRE is just for running pre-compiled Java code.

cmhughes says it would be nice to see java-is-not-recognized-as-an-internal-or-external-command

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[Tex/LaTex] How to use arara with TeXworks

arara was recently included in TeX Live 2012, as seen in the output of

$ tlmgr info arara
package:     arara
category:    Package
shortdesc:   Automation of LaTeX compilation.
...
installed:   Yes
revision:    29052
cat-version: 3.0
cat-date:    2013-02-06 08:25:13 +0100
cat-license: bsd
collection:  collection-binextra

Did you update your TeX Live distro recently? If not, maybe arara is missing from the repositories. A quick tlmgr update --self --all will ensure an update to every single package and tool available in the TL tree to their last revisions.

With arara deployed in TL, open your terminal and try

$ arara
  __ _ _ __ __ _ _ __ __ _
 / _` | '__/ _` | '__/ _` |
| (_| | | | (_| | | | (_| |
 \__,_|_|  \__,_|_|  \__,_|

arara 3.0 - The cool TeX automation tool
Copyright (c) 2012, Paulo Roberto Massa Cereda
All rights reserved.

usage: arara [file [--log] [--verbose] [--timeout N] [--language L] |
             --help | --version]
 -h,--help             print the help message
 -L,--language <arg>   set the application language
 -l,--log              generate a log output
 -t,--timeout <arg>    set the execution timeout (in milliseconds)
 -v,--verbose          print the command output
 -V,--version          print the application version

TeX Live takes care of adding a symbolic link to the arara.sh script which calls arara.jar with the operating system's Java Virutal Machine (if I recall correctly, Ubuntu comes with at least OpenJDK, which arara is compliant).

If you cannot get the output, maybe the TeX Live 2012 bin/ folder was not added to the path. Try running which pdflatex in your terminal and see the full path, it should have mention to the TL2012 install. If not, you might need to include the correct folder. Of course, it depends how you installed TeX Live in the first place.

According to the user manual, go to Preferences,

Info 1

then go to Typesetting path, and click the + button in the Processing tools.

Info 2

Now select the path to arara. Note that in this image, I used the path provided with the standalone installer of arara, since you are using the TeX Live version, stick with the link available in TL's /bin folder.

Info 3

Then arara is available in the Profiles list.

Info 4

Hope it helps. :)

Update: If we are talking about the TeX Live 2012 version available through Ubuntu's own repositories and not the TL version from TUG (a.k.a vanilla), arara is not available.

The best option, in this case, is to use the standalone installer available in the project repository. For more information on how to install arara with the installer, I kindly suggest Chapter 2 of the manual.

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