Re: LaTeX on Ubuntu

2014-04-18 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2014-04-12 9:25 GMT+03:00 Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org: Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org 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

Re: LaTeX on Ubuntu

2014-04-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il 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

Re: LaTeX on Ubuntu

2014-04-12 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org 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

Re: LaTeX on Ubuntu

2014-04-12 Thread Amos Shapira
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 p...@goldshmidt.org wrote: Oleg Goldshmidt p...@goldshmidt.org writes: What does not work

LaTeX on Ubuntu

2014-04-08 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
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

Re: LaTeX on Ubuntu

2014-04-08 Thread Daniel Shahaf
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 where

Re: LaTeX on Ubuntu

2014-04-08 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Daniel Shahaf d...@daniel.shahaf.name 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?