From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John Hendy Subject: Re: org mode error "pdf wasn't produced" Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:29:31 -0500 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39649) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evvES-0007zz-Vk for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2018 21:29:33 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evvES-0003Gi-47 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2018 21:29:32 -0400 Received: from mail-qt0-x229.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::229]:45042) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1evvES-0003GS-0G for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2018 21:29:32 -0400 Received: by mail-qt0-x229.google.com with SMTP id g60so1798588qtd.11 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2018 18:29:31 -0700 (PDT) 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: Dereje Tefera Cc: R Jain , "emacs-orgmode gnu.org" , John Kitchin Oops. Sincere apologies for misspelling your name, Dereje! I misread in my hasty skim. John On Tue, Mar 13, 2018 at 8:28 PM, John Hendy wrote: > Dejere, > > > Org-mode is not able to find your latex installation. That's the > problem, just as it says: it's trying to run the compilation command, > `pdflatex` and it can find no such thing. > > Either it's not installed, or it's not in your path. The more details > you can provide, the better. For starters 1) what latex variant is > installed and 2) is it in your path (and how do you know)? > > > Best regards, > John