Re: [Bug 2038452] Re: /usr/bin/rungs missing (essential to tex4ht)

[Preuße, Hilmar <hille42@web.de>]

On 26.06.2024 09:07, Norbert Preining wrote:

Hi,

> On Wed, 26 Jun 2024, Bernhard wrote:
> >    /usr/bin/rungs missing (essential to tex4ht)
> >
> > Status in texlive-base package in Ubuntu:
> >    New
> >
> > Bug description:
> >    I can no longer run htlatex, receiving the following error messages:
> >
> >    --- Warning --- System return: 32512
> >    System call: rungs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dusecropbox -sDEVICE=pngalpha -r300  -sOutputFile="fig//expand-.png" "fig//expand.pdf"
> >    sh: 1: rungs: not found
>
> rungs should have been patched out of the config files. I think I have
> done this in former times, but it seems recent packages still contain
> `rungs` instead of `gs` itself.

I guess the solution is rather easy: We just need to create soft link 
/usr/bin/rungs, which points to 
..../texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/rungs.lua Unfortunately our build system 
refers to texlive/rungs.tlu, which is the reason, why the link currently 
is not created.

hille@rasppi2:~/devel/TeXLive/github/texlive-nonbin $ dpkg-deb -c 
/var/lib/sbuild/build/texlive-base-Ta9dGD/texlive-base_2024.20240401-4_all.deb|grep 
rungs
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      1331 2022-09-11 21:08 
./usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/rungs.lua
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 2024-06-20 11:39 ./usr/bin/rungs -> 
../share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/rungs.lua


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