From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marcin Borkowski Subject: Re: Publish to PDF on Linux: An impossible task? Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 01:40:45 +0100 Message-ID: <87ftiv5joy.fsf@mbork.pl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45507) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iTxlQ-0004oO-RX for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Nov 2019 19:41:05 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iTxlP-0004dD-6O for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Nov 2019 19:41:04 -0500 Received: from mail.mojserwer.eu ([195.110.48.8]:35236) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iTxlO-0004bN-Vr for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Nov 2019 19:41:03 -0500 In-reply-to: List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: John Hendy Cc: emacs-orgmode On 2019-11-11, at 01:25, John Hendy wrote: > On Sun, Nov 10, 2019 at 6:01 PM Nathan Neff 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