On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 05:12:40PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 01 Apr 2021 21:41:30 +0100 > Tixy <t...@yxit.co.uk> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2021-04-01 at 16:34 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote: > > > I'm trying to use pandoc to convert markdown files to PDF. But when I > > > try, > > > pandoc dumps out with an error that it needs "pdflatex" or some other > > > similar converter to do its job. No such "pdflatex" package exists in > > > the > > > Buster stable archives. I'm sure something does this, but I don't > > > know what > > > it is. Does anyone else know? > > > > > > > I just Google "debian pdflatex" and the top hit was Debian's search > > page... > > > > https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=pdflatex > > > > I'm sure someone will be along shortly to give an example of how the > > search can be done from a commandline using Debian's packaging tools or > > similar... :-) > > 'apt-file search pdflatex' > > 'apt-file' is in the 'apt-file' package - it keeps a local database, > which one updates periodically / occasionally via 'apt-file update'. > > Celejar >
Thanks. The actual package is texlive-latex-base to provide pdflatex. Unfortunately, pandoc still balks, but in a different way. I'll have to do more research. Paul -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com