Re: [O] newbie which LaTeX for PDF publish

[Robert Klein]

Hi,

On Sat, 01 Sep 2018 22:12:39 +1200
adam <address@hidden> wrote:

> Am on Ubuntu 16.04, org-version is 8.2.10 
> 
> Export to PDF C-c C-e l o  is working. 
> However I wish finer grain LaTeX control. 
> 
> 
> For Export to PDF to work, I needed  pdftex  
> 
> So I followed one suggestion and installed    
> sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra 
> 
> However Tex's tlmgr reports errors and doesn't work. Tex users
> suggest a version incompatibility between that tlmgr and this Tex
> package. 
> 
> Any suggestions are welcome. 
> 
> Perhaps I should un-install texlive-latex-extra  and install a more
> fully blown LaTex package. In which case, which one?

I typically install texlive-full (Debian 9), but don't use tlmgr on it.

If you want newer packages best download and install it from
texlive.net to a separate location (e.g. /opt/texlive/$YEAR).

Are you sure you don't have pdftex installed already?

Is your Ubuntu an “update” installation that may have gone wrong?  Or
does Ubuntu offer several tex/latex distributions?  I think most people
nowadays use the texlive distribution.

Best regards
Robert