Bug 1384152

Summary: dvipdfmx not found
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Marcus Fischer <marcus.fischer>
Component: texliveAssignee: Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 25CC: klshaw, marcus.fischer, novyjindrich, tcallawa, than
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Description Marcus Fischer 2016-10-12 16:42:00 UTC
Description of problem: Creation of a pdf-file failed using dvipdfmx


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): svn40273



How reproducible: Create a dvi-file and use dvipdfmx to create a pdf-file.


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install texlive via dnf install texlive
2. Create a dvi-file
3. dvipdfmx -o *.pdf *.dvi

Actual results: comand not found


Expected results: Creation of a pdf-file ;-)


Additional info: Works without problems on F24

Comment 1 kevshaw 2016-11-30 16:03:23 UTC
In /usr/bin, two symbolic links are created for dvipdfm and dvipdfm

lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      9 Oct 25 11:18 dvipdfm -> xdvipdfmx
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      9 Oct 25 11:18 dvipdfmx -> xdvipdfmx

They both point to /usr/bin/xdvipdfmx which isn't there.

prompt%ls -al xdvipdfm*
ls: cannot access 'xdvipdfm*': No such file or directory

However, /usr/bin/dvipdf is there and seems to be the desired executable (aka it makes pdfs from dvis for me).

prompt% ls -al dvipdf*
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   1026 Nov  4 08:19 dvipdf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      9 Oct 25 11:18 dvipdfm -> xdvipdfmx
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root      9 Oct 25 11:18 dvipdfmx -> xdvipdfmx
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root   2688 Oct 25 11:14 dvipdft

Thus I rewrote both links to point to /usr/bin/dvipdf 

-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 1026 Nov  4 08:19 dvipdf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root    6 Nov 29 12:57 dvipdfm -> dvipdf
lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root    6 Nov 29 12:57 dvipdfmx -> dvipdf
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 2688 Oct 25 11:14 dvipdft

and my TeX workflow is back to normal on F25.

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