From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: emacs export to PDF impossible due to missing pdflatex Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2019 22:39:39 +0100 Message-ID: <87lg2sfvfo.fsf@elephly.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:60517) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1grUvD-0008Ep-4r for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2019 16:39:55 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1grUvC-0006qk-Gt for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2019 16:39:55 -0500 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21071) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1grUvC-0006qZ-2O for help-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Feb 2019 16:39:54 -0500 In-reply-to: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: quiliro@fsfla.org Cc: help-guix@gnu.org 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. =E2=80=9Cpdflatex=E2=80=9D is provided by =E2=80=9Ctexlive-bin=E2=80=9D. I have yet to write a section in the manual to explain how LaTeX on Guix systems works. And maybe texlive-base ought to include texlive-bin. --=20 Ricardo