Anki

Pre-built Python wheels ​

The latest released Anki can be checked at PyPI. To install python from pre-built wheels, first create and activate a virtual environment:

python -m venv --system-site-packages .venv

The packages pyqt6 pyqt6-webengine will also be needed. Prefer your system's package manager to install it.

pip install --upgrade aqt

On newer Linux that upgraded glibc, start anki with either:

Fcitx support ​

Find the system's and Anki's platforminputcontexts directory and symlink the fcitx plugin.

Qt5 ​

ln -s /usr/lib/qt/plugins/platforminputcontexts/libfcitx5platforminputcontextplugin.so \
      ~/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/PyQt5/Qt5/plugins/platforminputcontexts

Qt6 ​

ln -s /usr/lib/qt6/plugins/platforminputcontexts/libfcitx5platforminputcontextplugin.so \
      ~/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/PyQt6/Qt6/plugins/platforminputcontexts

Build locally ​

Firstly clone anki repository from here

Install bazel ​

Anki requires a specific bazel version. Check the required bazel version with:

cat .bazelversion

If the required bazel version is, for example, 5.0.0, download bazel-5.0.0-linux-x86_64 manually at the bazel release page.

To download from the command line, use:

curl --location --output ~/.local/bin/bazel "https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases/download/5.0.0/bazel-5.0.0-linux-x86_64"

Finally add execution permission to the binary:

chmod u+x ~/.local/bin/bazel

Build and install anki ​

At least python 3.8 is required.

./tools/build
pip install --user --upgrade bazel-dist/*.whl

Anki then can be executed by typing anki on the terminal.

LaTeX support ​

• Official documentation

Install ​

For code syntax highlight, install minted.

When compiling the LaTeX code, we will need the -shell-escape extra argument. For that, install Edit LaTeX build process add-on, and update the arguments in its configuration file. Add the argument for both PNG and SVG compilers. Restart Anki.

Configuration ​

Now we can focus on updating our LaTeX document. Go to Tools > Manage note types, select the note type, click Options, and update the header and footer.

> Header ​

\documentclass[10pt,a5paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{minted}
\pagestyle{empty}
\begin{document}

> Footer ​

\end{document}

Check Create scalable images with dvisvgm to generate SVG instead of PNG.

Usage ​

When editing cards, make sure to use the HTML editor, because Anki adds some HTML elements by default. Those elements may cause LaTeX to fail to compile.

[latex]
\begin{minted}[frame=single,framesep=2mm]{py}
name = 'Tom'  # My name is Tom
\end{minted}
[/latex]