> On 24 Nov 2022, at 04:16, David Bellows <davebell...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm running some fairly recent version of Ubuntu but instead of > installing TeX from the repository I install TeXLive from here: > https://www.tug.org/texlive/ > This way I can also keep all the packages much more up to date than > what Ubuntu does. Even after all these years, we're all still better > off installing TeXLive directly instead of through the repositories.
Thanks, there appears to be a strong consensus amongst the experts that this is the way to go. Note to future-me: Do as David suggests. > > I ran your code (without the pathname for lyluatex since it is part of > TeXLive) with the command: > lualatex --shell-escape example.tex > and it compiled just fine without any errors. I didn't have to install > anything extra, I just keep TeXLive current and everything works. > > I use emacs but compile the code from the command line. Getting things working from the command line is definitely easier. There were a couple more hoops to jump through if you want a more Frescobaldi-like experience, and I recorded them for completeness. -- Graham
