Re: emacs export to PDF impossible due to missing pdflatex

[Quiliro Ordonez]

El 2019-02-06 21:39, Ricardo Wurmus escribió:
> Hi Quiliro,
> 
>> Emacs is capable of exporting to PDF by the use of pdflatex. This
>> program is available in Trisquel and PureOS (as a Debian inheritance) by
>> way of the 'texlive-latex-base' package. With Guix, even after
>> installing 'texlive-base' package (which depends on
>> 'texlive-latex-base'), Emacs would give the error of missing 'pdflatex'
>> when exporting to PDF. The only solution to exporting to PDF on Emacs on
>> a foreign distro is to install 'texlive-latex-base' via 'sudo apt
>> install'. On GSD (Guix System Distribution) it is impossible to export
>> to PDF on Emacs.
> 
> “pdflatex” is provided by “texlive-bin”.

This is the new output after installing texlive-bin and then exporting
to PDF on Emacs:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.18 (TeX Live 2017)
(preloaded format=pdflatex)
 restricted \write18 enabled.

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
        LANGUAGE = (unset),
        LC_ALL = (unset),
        LANG = "es_EC.UTF-8"
    are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back to the standard locale ("C").
Can't locate mktexlsr.pl in @INC (@INC contains: /gnu/store/tlpkg
/gnu/store/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive
/gnu/store/pbmlaa6icffgpi37wjcmc7m85w2jbki9-perl-5.26.1/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.1/i686-linux-thread-multi
/gnu/store/pbmlaa6icffgpi37wjcmc7m85w2jbki9-perl-5.26.1/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.26.1
/gnu/store/pbmlaa6icffgpi37wjcmc7m85w2jbki9-perl-5.26.1/lib/perl5/5.26.1/i686-linux-thread-multi
/gnu/store/pbmlaa6icffgpi37wjcmc7m85w2jbki9-perl-5.26.1/lib/perl5/5.26.1)
at /home/quiliro/.guix-profile/bin/mktexfmt line 23.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at
/home/quiliro/.guix-profile/bin/mktexfmt line 25.
I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!