Getting pdflatex to work inside a spap packge

[Dietmar Winkler]

Having manually replaced the location in /usr/bin/update-texmf did not
change anything. So it is most likely embedded in the compiled binary
of pdflatex. :-(



On 29 July 2016 at 17:47, Dietmar Winkler <dietmar.winkler at dwe.no> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 29 July 2016 at 17:32, Oliver Grawert <ogra at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> you could just replace these paths ...
>
> Well then I would to manually change the code in the stage (?) area
> which would be not at all an optimal workflow.
>
>> (when does that command run ? at runtime or at install time ?)
>
> It happens when the ipe application triggers pdflatex.
>
> Working example:
> After having build and installed the ipe snap from
>
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dietmarw/snaps/master/ipe/
>
> you can run
>
> ipe.ipetoipe -pdf test.ipe
>
> on https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dietmarw/snaps/master/ipe/test/test.ipe
>
> and should get:
> $ ipe.ipetoipe -pdf test.ipe
> Document test.ipe has 1 pages (1 views)
> pdflatex: /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf: Permission denied
> There was an error trying to run Pdflatex.
>
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