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I resolved the issue, it turns out that after I complete downloading, I should open the installer again and click on install MikTeX. To produce a PDF, specify an output file with a .pdf extension: the PDF, which requires that a LaTeX engine be installed (see --pdf-engine below). Windows. There is a package installer at pandoc's download page. This will install pandoc, replacing older versions, and update your path to include the pandoc sourcefile.tex -o output.pdf , which fails with error pdflatex not found. Please select a different --pdf-engine or install pdflatex . If specifying a path, you must give the one to the pdflatex binary, not pdftex . Using --pdf-engine=C:Program FilesMiKTeXpdflatex should do the trick.For people using ubuntu who get stranded here a better option (because it is 1/5 the size) is to use: sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-