At work I have set up a little backup script on my Ubuntu 14.04.1 machine. The script backs up my machine to an external hard drive. After this is done it copies a LaTeX project to my Dropbox and compiles it. This project is some kind of a logbook of my work.
I know this is a rather unconventional use case and I could just copy the source or push it to a git repo but first of all git would be a bit of an overkill and second of all there were already two instances where I was glad for having it in pdf form on my mobile when I had to start up a tty shell because gnome wouldn't start up.
The problem now is that for some reason both pdflatex and lualatex tell me that they can't find the .sty
files. The backup script is the following:
#!/bin/bash
# .... some system backup code ....
## sync linux setup document to Dropbox
# remove .pdf in order to guarantee that project is compiled
rm /home/user/Documents/LaTeX/logBook/logBook.pdf
# compile project in origin
make -C /home/user/Documents/LaTeX/logBook/ >> /home/user/Documents/LaTeX/logBook/makeLog
# copy files to destination
cp -rp /home/user/Documents/LaTeX/logBook/ /home/wright/Dropbox
And my Makefile
contains the following lines:
SHELL=bash
TARGET=linuxSetup.pdf
FLAGS= --shell-escape
SRC= ./*.tex ./header/*.tex ./chapters/*.tex ./references/*.bib ./titlepage/*.tex
TIKZ= ./tikz/*.tex
LL= pdflatex
all: $(TARGET)
$(TARGET): $(TARGET:%.pdf=%.tex) $(SRC) $(TIKZ)
@$(LL) $(FLAGS) $<
# makeglossaries $(TARGET:%.pdf=%"")
# makeindex -s headingsStyle.ist $(TARGET:%.pdf=%.idx)
# bibtex $(TARGET:%.pdf=%"")
@$(LL) $(FLAGS) $<
@$(LL) $(FLAGS) $<
The backup script is placed in /etc/init.d/backup
and contains a symbolic link to /etc/rc0.d/S01Backup
.
The scripts are simple enough, yet they still won't find the .sty
files. I tried excluding the .sty
files to find out if the problem was caused by specific ones but regardless of how many I exclude there are always more that the compiler won't find. I switched the compiler yet that does not seem to be the issue either. And also I executed the complete backup script via sudo
or as the root user, both of which worked perfectly fine without any errors.
What am I missing?
EDIT: Here is the last bit of the output:
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amstext.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsbsy.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsopn.sty))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cite/cite.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/mh/empheq.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/mh/mhsetup.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/mh/mathtools.sty
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty)))
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/etex-pkg/etex.sty)
(/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fancybox/fancybox.sty
Style option: `fancybox' v1.4 <2010/05/15> (tvz)
) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/float/float.sty)
! LaTeX Error: File `floatflt.sty' not found.
Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
Enter file name:
The floatflt.sty
file in question is located in the texlive install directory /usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/latex/floatflt
. The other packages that it did find above, however, are located in /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/<packagename>
.
/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/latex/
directory, doesn't it? – David Wright May 13 '16 at 9:39.sty files. Does your project compile correctly in
/home/user/Documents/LaTeX/logBook/`? Are you compiling the Dropbox copy from another machine? – terdon♦ May 13 '16 at 9:43TEXINPUTS
var to hold place to look for input. – Archemar May 13 '16 at 9:49