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FlatPak + System TexLive: Cannot Compile

See original GitHub issue

Type of JetBrains IDE (IntelliJ, PyCharm, etc.) and version

Jetbrains IntelliJ Ultimate 2020.2 – Installed with Flatpak

Operating System

Linux Mint 20 – based on Ubuntu 20

$uname -a
Linux nmitchko-B550-GAMING-X 5.4.0-47-lowlatency #51-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Fri Sep 4 20:46:20 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

TeXiFy IDEA version

Latest: 0.7

What I did (steps to reproduce)

(A) Scenario 1 Not Working:

Installed TexLive (From Linux Instructions)
Installed TeXiFy plugin
Created New Project
Compiled
Error

(B) Scenario 2 Not Working:

Installed TexLive (sudo apt-get -y install texlive-base texlive-latex-extra texlive-xelatex)
Installed TeXiFy plugin
Created New Project
Compiled
Error

Minimal example to reproduce the problem

Install TexLive
Install IntelliJ from Flatpak (Linux Mint and Ubuntu Software center distribute like so)
Install TeXiFy
Try to compile any project

\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
Some content here....
\end{document}

Expected behavior

Find pdflatex and execute compilation

Actual behavior

Binaries are not found, previous issue comment here (#850) did not help

(if applicable) The full stacktrace of the exception thrown

This is the error in the event log, I do not think a stack trace is necessary. Some paths redacted.

9/19/20
8:12 PM	Error running '*****': Cannot run program "xelatex" (in directory "***REDACT***/src"): error=2, No such file or directory\

Issue Analytics

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:8

Top GitHub Comments

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abacefcommented, Oct 14, 2020

This does work. When I paste my compiler location into a run configuration and run it, I do get a PDF generated.

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nickmitchkocommented, Oct 16, 2020

@PHPirates I never got it working with flatpak unless I symlinked the binaries to the correct spot. I ended up not doing that in the end, and just used the Jetbrains toolbox app to install and it’s flawless.

@abacef I agree but the ease of use would not be the best, maybe a settings for “compiler location”. idk if flatpak will respect that.