[tex-live] double installation | dblatex | docbook.sty not found

Urs Liska ul at openlilylib.org
Mon Dec 23 12:18:14 CET 2013


Am 23.12.2013 11:38, schrieb Zdenek Wagner:
> The reason is that docbook.sty is not distributed with TeX Live and
> dblatex installed it to Debian's TeX tree. Now dblatex calls latex
> from TeX Live (due to PATH setting) and it does not know about another
> TeX distribution on your computer.

Thanks (also to Lars), that makes sense and was the cause.

> You can either modify the root
> texmf.cnf, I define a few development trees (my
> /usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf.cnf is attached) or you can locate
> docbook.sty (and possibly other necessary files) and symlink it to
> your texmf-local (the .sty files will most probably reside in a
> directory of its own, so you can symlink the whole directory). After
> symlinking you have to run mktexlsr. Both methods should work, the
> latter is better because when TeX Live 2014 comes, it will reuse
> texmf-local. Both methods will continue to work if you update dblatex
> from Debian repositories.

I did the latter, and it worked.

Best and thank you again
Urs

>
> 2013/12/23 Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk>:
>> whos path yours or roots?
>>
>> you presumably install via sudo which has a completely different path than use the user does.
>>
>>
>> /Lars Madsen
>> Institut for Matematik / Department of Mathematics
>> Aarhus Universitet / Aarhus University
>> Mere info: http://au.dk/daleif@imf / More information: http://au.dk/en/daleif@imf
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________
>> From: tex-live [tex-live-bounces at tug.org] on behalf of Urs Liska [ul at openlilylib.org]
>> Sent: 23 December 2013 11:05
>> To: Robin Fairbairns
>> Cc: TeXLive mailing list
>> Subject: Re: [tex-live] double installation | dblatex | docbook.sty not found
>>
>> Am 23.12.2013 10:54, schrieb Robin Fairbairns:
>>> Urs Liska <ul at openlilylib.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm having an issue which is probably related to path searching.
>>>>
>>>> I have TL 2013 installed from the web installer. It resides in a local
>>>> dir (i.e. in my user dir).
>>>> For some dependencies (apt-get build-dep lilypond) I additionally had
>>>> to install it through apt-get from the Debian repositories. But my
>>>> paths are set so the web installation is used.
>>>> Additionally I've installed dblatex through apt-get.
>>>>
>>>> Now when running a build script this fails at the command "dblatex
>>>> somefile.tex" with the message "docbook.sty" not found.
>>>>
>>>> tlmgr update dblatex tells me it is up to date.
>>>> dblatex is found in /usr/bin.
>>>>
>>>> Somehow I have the impression my manually installed TeXLive and the
>>>> apt-get dblatex don't cooperate well.
>>>
>>> i would be extremely surprised if they did.  the dblatex you got via
>>> apt-get will typically be looking in the tex tree that was active when
>>> it was installed; so unless you installed it with the tl texmf tree
>>> "current", you don't stand a chance.
>>
>> When I installed dblatex (I think) my path was set so `which latex`
>> pointed to somewhere below /shared/software/texlive.
>> This was the case immediately after having done apt-get install texlive...
>>
>>>
>>>> Any ideas what I could check?
>>>
>>> can you find docbook.sty from _anywhere_ on your system?  (i can't,
>>> neither in the "virgin" ubuntu-installed system, or in my tex live
>>> installation, or on ctan.)
>>
>> There is not docbook.sty inside /shared/software/texlive
>> but one inside /usr/share/texmf
>>
>> Which points to your suggestion.
>>
>> Maybe it helps uninstalling dblatex, then checking path settings (but
>> how?) and reinstalling dblatex?
>>
>>>
>>> my general rule is not to run the default ubuntu latex, at all, unless
>>> i'm in user-support mode.
>>>
>>
>> I don't use the Debian or Ubuntu (on another PC) latex at all but had to
>> install it as a dependency. I know there are workarounds with dummy
>> packages, but I didn't manage to do it that way and decided not to care
>> about the extra Gigabytes...
>>
>> Urs
>>
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