Re: Publish to PDF on Linux: An impossible task?

[Samuel Wales]

there is also pandoc, if you know something that you can export to
that pandoc can reasonably convert.  like, who knows, html or
something.

this might be useful if you are in a hurry or you don't want to
install a non-distribution package or whatever.


On 11/10/19, Tim Cross <address@hidden> wrote:
> This looks like an incomplete textLive install to me.
>
> On many distributions, texlive is broken up into a number of smaller
> packages. You need to ensure you have installed the texlive latex packages.
>
> I would follow the advice of others and just use the package from the
> texlive site.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Nov 2019 at 11:41, Marcin Borkowski <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 2019-11-11, at 01:25, John Hendy <address@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> > On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 6:01 PM Nathan Neff <address@hidden>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> After using org-mode for 10 years, I run for the doorway when
>> >> I even think about trying to convert an org-mode file to PDF.
>> >>
>> >> *** I quiver when I see errors such as:
>> >>
>> >> warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these
>> directories:
>> /usr/bin:/usr/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/bin/share/texmf-dist/web2c:/usr/bin/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/bin/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/bin/texmf-dist/web2c:/usr/bin/texmf/web2c:/usr:/usr/share/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c:/usr/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/texmf-dist/web2c:/usr/texmf/web2c://texmf-local/web2c:/://share/texmf-local/web2c://share/texmf-dist/web2c://share/texmf/web2c://texmf-local/web2c://texmf-dist/web2c://texmf/web2c.
>> >> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019/Arch
>> Linux) (preloaded format=pdflatex)
>> >>
>> >> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
>> >> mktexfmt: No such file or directory
>> >> I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
>> >
>> > These look like latex errors to me, nothing to do with Org. Guessing
>>
>> These are not LaTeX errors, they are lower-level ones.
>>
>> > you used the arch package? I'm on arch myself, but after getting
>> > bitten by package mismatches and things being hopelessly broken, I
>> > switched to just using texlive directly:
>> > - https://www.tug.org/texlive/
>> >
>> > It's not that bad. There's even a quick guide to walk you through the
>> > tl-install script. If you'd rather troubleshoot what you have going on
>> > now, here's some places to start:
>> > - you're missing files... figure out which package is supposed to
>> > provide them and install it
>>
>> He misses LaTeX format file itself, and apparently mktexfmt (which
>> should create it) cannot be found.  This seems more serious than what
>> you write.
>>
>> > - check your paths
>>
>> Agreed, but this may be quite subtle...
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> --
>> Marcin Borkowski
>> http://mbork.pl
>>
>>
>
> --
> regards,
>
> Tim
>
> --
> Tim Cross
>


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