Re: Converting markdown to PDF
On Thu, 01 Apr 2021 21:41:30 +0100
Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2021-04-01 at 16:34 -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
> > I'm trying to use pandoc to convert markdown files to PDF. But when I
> > try,
> > pandoc dumps out with an error that it needs "pdflatex" or some other
> > similar converter to do its job. No such "pdflatex" package exists in
> > the
> > Buster stable archives. I'm sure something does this, but I don't
> > know what
> > it is. Does anyone else know?
> >
>
> I just Google "debian pdflatex" and the top hit was Debian's search
> page...
>
> https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=pdflatex
>
> I'm sure someone will be along shortly to give an example of how the
> search can be done from a commandline using Debian's packaging tools or
> similar... :-)
'apt-file search pdflatex'
'apt-file' is in the 'apt-file' package - it keeps a local database,
which one updates periodically / occasionally via 'apt-file update'.
Celejar
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