From: Quiliro Ordonez <quiliro@riseup.net>
To: help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: emacs export to PDF impossible due to missing pdflatex
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 07:44:53 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9bd61dedfa618895e27449428e0e26f8@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87lg2sfvfo.fsf@elephly.net>
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”.
Installed texlive-bin and texlive-base with fairly new guix:
$ guix --version
guix (GNU Guix) 9d58e8819fdbc4c1c8a1ef6149e2d2376731a6a6
But I stil cannot export to PDF via Emacs:
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.19 (TeX Live 2018)
(preloaded format=pdflatex)
restricted \write18 enabled.
kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
Can't locate mktexlsr.pl in @INC (@INC contains: /gnu/store/tlpkg
/gnu/store/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive
/gnu/store/598xm50hamffb47ixv4qw6zszxaw9p9w-perl-5.28.0/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.28.0/i686-linux-thread-multi
/gnu/store/598xm50hamffb47ixv4qw6zszxaw9p9w-perl-5.28.0/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.28.0
/gnu/store/598xm50hamffb47ixv4qw6zszxaw9p9w-perl-5.28.0/lib/perl5/5.28.0/i686-linux-thread-multi
/gnu/store/598xm50hamffb47ixv4qw6zszxaw9p9w-perl-5.28.0/lib/perl5/5.28.0)
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'!
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-10 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-06 20:32 emacs export to PDF impossible due to missing pdflatex Quiliro Ordonez
2019-02-06 21:39 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-02-06 22:26 ` Quiliro Ordonez
2019-02-07 12:08 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-02-07 12:44 ` zimoun
2019-02-07 13:12 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-02-07 14:20 ` zimoun
2019-02-07 15:13 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-02-07 22:25 ` Quiliro Ordonez
2019-02-07 22:33 ` Quiliro Ordonez
2019-02-08 8:20 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-02-08 12:39 ` Quiliro Ordonez
2019-02-10 15:44 ` Quiliro Ordonez [this message]
2019-02-14 9:07 ` Pierre Gambarotto
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