Re: Converting markdown to PDF
On Thu, Apr 01, 2021 at 05:12:40PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> 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
>
Thanks. The actual package is texlive-latex-base to provide pdflatex.
Unfortunately, pandoc still balks, but in a different way. I'll have to do
more research.
Paul
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