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Bug#922418: pandoc: Please reference texlive-latex-base package in the "install pdflatex" error message



Quoting Chris Lamb (2019-02-15 18:10:13)
>   % pandoc -o output.pdf input.md
>   pdflatex not found. Please select a different --pdf-engine or install pdflatex
> 
> I think this could be improved user-interface wise as pdflatex is
> in the "texlive-latex-base" package (and not a hypothetical "pdflatex"
> package).
> 
> A patch is attached that turns this into:
> 
>   % pandoc -o output.pdf input.md
>   pdflatex not found. Please select a different --pdf-engine or install pdflatex from the texlive-latex-base package

Great!

I'll expand that to the other clues now listed only in long description.

Thanks a lot!

 - Jonas

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