General ⇒ Latex error could not start the command : pdflatex

[Philosophaie]

I am new to Latex and am working in Texmaker 4.4.1

I have written a simple Program:

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\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{amsfonts}
\usepackage{amssymb}
\begin{equation}
\frac{1}{(n+1)}
\end{equation}

I select Tools>Quick Build and I get this error code:

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Error : could not start the command : pdflatex -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode "start".tex

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Welcome to the forum!

I guess you installed Texmaker, which is an editor working with TeX but not TeX itself. You can install for example TeX Live.

With Linux, it can be installed also using the system's package manager. On a Mac, choose MacTeX.

Stefan