Hi,
Any LaTeX/Ubuntu users here? I have a stupid problem that I have spent way
too much time researching, and all I see is that years ago there was at
least one related bug open
that was never resolved, apparently because people found workarounds in
situations much simpler than mine, and the main
Oleg Goldshmidt wrote on Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 17:55:59 +0300:
> I got desperate and ran
>
> $ export TEXINPUTS=$(ls -R /usr/share/tex* | awk '/^\/.+:$/ {printf
> "%s",$0}')"."
>
> After this, everything worked.
>
> Has anyone here encountered this problem? Solved it? Any ideas?
- strace to see
Daniel Shahaf writes:
> Oleg Goldshmidt wrote on Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 17:55:59 +0300:
>> I got desperate and ran
>>
>> $ export TEXINPUTS=$(ls -R /usr/share/tex* | awk '/^\/.+:$/ {printf
>> "%s",$0}')"."
>>
>> After this, everything worked.
>>
>> Has anyone here encountered this problem? Solve
Oleg Goldshmidt writes:
> What does not work is that no cls or sty files are found. The first
> thing that throws an error is
>
> ! LaTeX Error: File `article.cls' not found.
FWIW, it looks like the specific server is borked in some weird way. On
a different Ubuntu Server 12.04.4 LTS (that I in
Shoot it in the head and reprovision it using an automatic provisioning
tool (puppet, chef, whatever):
http://regmedia.co.uk/2013/03/18/servers_pets_or_cattle.jpg
On 12 Apr 2014 17:12, "Oleg Goldshmidt" wrote:
> Oleg Goldshmidt writes:
>
> > What does not work is that no cls or sty files are fo
2014-04-12 9:25 GMT+03:00 Oleg Goldshmidt :
> Oleg Goldshmidt writes:
>
> > What does not work is that no cls or sty files are found. The first
> > thing that throws an error is
> >
> > ! LaTeX Error: File `article.cls' not found.
>
> FWIW, it looks like the specific server is borked in some weir
"E.S. Rosenberg" writes:
> I don't know anything about tex but could it be that when it was
> 'borked' it created some personalized config files in your homedir
> that are still affecting you because you only purged general config?
No, it was a brand new user - I think it was asked and answered
