------- Original Message ------- On Friday, December 2nd, 2022 at 1:37 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]> wrote:
> Trying to run texindy to create the index for a book kept failing. The > reason was that /usr/bin/texindy was a perl script, not a link to the script > in /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/texindy.pl. Permissions of that script are > 755. > > I deleted /usr/bin/texindy and replaced it with a softlink with permissions > these perms: > # ll texindy > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Dec 2 11:41 texindy -> > /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/texindy.pl > > > When I try to run the script (as a user) the response is: > $ texindy biota-to-set-wq-standards.idx > -bash: /usr/bin/texindy: Permission denied > > What am I doing incorrectly? > > Rich Did you upgrade to a newer version of text than what the distro comes with? I don't have a texindy.pl in /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts bash-5.1$ locate texindy /usr/bin/texindy /usr/man/man1/texindy.1.gz /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/xindy/texindy.pl /usr/share/texmf-dist/xindy/modules/base/texindy.xdy /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/xindy/texindy.pl seems to be exactly the same as the ony in /usr/bin/. This is with stock 15.0 packages, I never mess with the tex stuff but I usually let it install anyway. -Ben
