[tex-live] Fwd: Running In Ubuntu, within Virtualbox on Windows

[Philip Stubbs]

Opps. Sorry George.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Philip Stubbs <philip at stuphi.co.uk>
Date: 5 March 2010 11:32
Subject: Re: [tex-live] Running In Ubuntu, within Virtualbox on Windows
To: "George N. White III" <gnwiii at gmail.com>


On 5 March 2010 11:25, George N. White III <gnwiii at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 7:12 AM, Philip Stubbs <philip at stuphi.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I Have Ubuntu Linux installed within a virtualbox on top of a Windows
>> system. My files are on a windows server that I can mount within
>> Ubuntu. I can see and edit my files from within Ubuntu just fine.
>> However, when I try and run LaTeX, it complains that the file is not
>> found.
>>
>> Does anybody have a clue as to what is going wrong?
>
> We need more information.  You should provide the exact command
> and error message.

philip at philip-desktop:/mnt/danmail/Engineering/Full/CAD_Home/PhilStubbs/reports/2010/10-03_M1_with_L160_LED$
ls -l
total 5
-rwxr-xr-x 1 philip philip 3055 2010-02-19 12:29 10-03_M1_with_L160_LED.tex
drwxr-xr-x 1 philip philip    0 2010-02-19 12:33 colour
drwxr-xr-x 1 philip philip    0 2010-02-19 12:01 data
drwxr-xr-x 1 philip philip    0 2010-02-19 11:59 goni
drwxr-xr-x 1 philip philip    0 2010-02-19 10:48 images
philip at philip-desktop:/mnt/danmail/Engineering/Full/CAD_Home/PhilStubbs/reports/2010/10-03_M1_with_L160_LED$
latex 10-03_M1_with_L160_LED.tex
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
! I can't find file `10-03_M1_with_L160_LED.tex'.
<*> 10-03_M1_with_L160_LED.tex

(Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit)
Please type another input file name:


>> If I have not explained the situation well enough, please say so that
>> I can add any extra information that may help sort this issue out.
>
> Are you using CTAN TeX Live that you installed yourself or the
> Ubuntu packaged version?   If CTAN, did you install TL on the windows
> drive or in the virtual disk?

It is the version of LaTeX that comes with Ubuntu. I am running 10.04,
but the same thing happened with 9.10.

>
> Does LateX work if you copy the file to the virtual disk?

It does just fine. However, I need my files to be on the server
because the backups only happen on the server.
>
> Are you using a GUI environment to run LaTeX or the command
> line?

Command line

>
> What happens if you run "pdflatex sample2e" in a terminal?

philip at philip-desktop:/mnt/danmail/Engineering/Full/CAD_Home/PhilStubbs/reports/2010/10-03_M1_with_L160_LED$
pdflatex sample2e
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/sample2e.tex
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, farsi, arabic, croatian, bulgarian, ukrainian, russian, czech, slov
ak, danish, dutch, finnish, french, basque, ngerman, german, german-x-2009-06-1
9, ngerman-x-2009-06-19, ibycus, monogreek, greek, ancientgreek, hungarian, san
skrit, italian, latin, latvian, lithuanian, mongolian2a, mongolian, bokmal, nyn
orsk, romanian, irish, coptic, serbian, turkish, welsh, esperanto, uppersorbian
, estonian, indonesian, interlingua, icelandic, kurmanji, slovenian, polish, po
rtuguese, spanish, galician, catalan, swedish, ukenglish, pinyin, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
No file sample2e.aux.
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/omscmr.fd) [1{/var/lib/texmf/fonts/map
/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}] [2] [3]
! I can't find file `sample2e.aux'.
\enddocument ...makeatletter \input \jobname .aux
                                                 \fi \@dofilelist \ifdim \f...
l.204 \end{document}
                                  % End of document.
(Press Enter to retry, or Control-D to exit)
Please type another input file name:

> --
> George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia

Thanks for your help.



--
Philip Stubbs



-- 
Philip Stubbs