Re: Converting markdown to PDF
On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 09:41:30PM +0100, Tixy 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... :-)
Cute but uncalled for. To wit...
paulf@dudley:~$ uname -a
Linux dudley 4.19.0-13-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.160-2 (2020-11-28) x86_64
GNU/Linux
paulf@dudley:~$ sudo apt install pdflatex
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package pdflatex
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