HOWTO: LaTeX [TeXLive] with Kile [gnome & ...]

[neoflight]

the code works for me here!!!. interesting....
could you post the log file created while running latex?

[Aramis]

Oh No! I am such a bad user! I did not read the manual in full!
I assumed that since it was possible to use LaTeX, and bibtex, from the command line, it was okay to leave Kile default configuration!!!!!!
Since my last post, I did add the full path in front of the commands I use the most (pdflatex, latex, bibitex) and since I no longer have this missing package problem for either IEEEtranS, or IEEEtrantools. My document compile without problems!

Geez, neoflight you were right all along I needed to double check the configuration of kile. Perhaps, it would be a nice addition to your how-to to stress that even though the path is correctly setup (all executables are accessible from the command prompt) you still need to configure kile with the full path!

that is my problem sorted!

thanks a lot again.

Ar@mi$ back to basics : learn how to read, and follow instructions to the letter.

[neoflight]

Oh No! I am such a bad user! I did not read the manual in full!
I assumed that since it was possible to use LaTeX, and bibtex, from the command line, it was okay to leave Kile default configuration!!!!!!
Since my last post, I did add the full path in front of the commands I use the most (pdflatex, latex, bibitex) and since I no longer have this missing package problem for either IEEEtranS, or IEEEtrantools. My document compile without problems!

Geez, neoflight you were right all along I needed to double check the configuration of kile. Perhaps, it would be a nice addition to your how-to to stress that even though the path is correctly setup (all executables are accessible from the command prompt) you still need to configure kile with the full path!

that is my problem sorted!

thanks a lot again.


NOTE:: there is an alternate way if you don't want to screw up.... if you are using Edgy, then texlive is in the universe repos... just install that one and then you don't need the entire path stuff as long as all the executables such as acroread, xdvi or evince installed and tell texmaker/kile to use it....haven't tested this in kile....but for telive it works...!!!
Ar@mi$ back to basics : learn how to read, and follow instructions to the letter.

haha thats nice....its funny ain't it? ... it reminds me of my research...!
i almost convinced my prof that my results were right and then that was a brilliant feet in engineering which could make some impact in the community...soon to be nuked by a variable with a wrong sign in my code...and we laughed our bowels out...!!!

anyway glad that you solved it... i was gonna varify the same thing from the log file...

[Aramis]

Hi Neoflight,

your previous post is making me feel weird! where did that Note bit come from???
In any case, I could explain the reason why I did not care to fully configure Kile. I initially followed your How-To on TeXMaker, and this particular application did not require fiddling about with LaTeX PATH within the actual IDE. But it was important that the command lines worked and I did that. I was hoping/assuming that it would be the same in Kile.

I welcome the fact that tex-Live is now a debian package, it might make life easier for the users. It is too bad though, when you upgrade regularly, like I do (went from Brezzy to Dapper and finally Edgy using apt-get), you do not benefit of the cool stuff such as automatic Kile/LaTeX path combo configuration.

Ah well... Linux would not be Linux without these lessons.

Ar@mi$

PS: I am terrified of the fact that my PhD work might contain errors and these might be revealed at crucial moments, such as the final viva (gaps!!!!!!)

[Cogito²]

When I do a system check of kile, it says that neither Latex or tex are working properly. Here are my results:

#script:/bin/sh
#basedir:/tmp/kde-thomas/kilekgjwEe/

[TeX]
mustpass=where,basic,kile
executable=tex
where=
version=
basic=127

[PDFTeX]
mustpass=
executable=pdftex
where=
basic=127

[LaTeX]
mustpass=where,basic,kile
executable=latex
where=
basic=127

[PDFLaTeX]
mustpass=
executable=pdflatex
where=
basic=127

[DVItoPS]
mustpass=
executable=dvips
where=

[DVItoPDF]
mustpass=
executable=dvipdfm
where=

[PStoPDF]
mustpass=
executable=ps2pdf
where=/usr/bin/ps2pdf

[BibTeX]
mustpass=
executable=bibtex
where=

[MakeIndex]
mustpass=
executable=makeindex
where=

[KDVI]
mustpass=where
executable=kdvi
where=

[KGhostView]
mustpass=
executable=kghostview
where=

[KPDF]
mustpass=
executable=kpdf
where=

[Gv]
mustpass=
executable=gv
where=

[Acroread]
mustpass=
executable=acroread
where=

Does anyone know what may be the problem?

edit: It says it can't "find the binary for this essential tool" for latex, tex, and kdvi. Is there any common mistake that results in this?

edit2: This is the log when I try to run latex.

This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.30.4-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.5) (format=latex 2006.12.22)  18 JAN 2007 14:13
entering extended mode
 %&-line parsing enabled.
**course_notes.tex
(./course_notes.tex
LaTeX2e <2003/12/01>
Babel <v3.8g> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, noh
yphenation, basque, bulgarian, coptic, welsh, czech, slovak, german, ngerman, d
anish, spanish, catalan, estonian, finnish, french, greek, monogreek, ancientgr
eek, croatian, hungarian, interlingua, ibycus, indonesian, icelandic, italian, 
latin, mongolian, dutch, norsk, polish, portuguese, pinyin, romanian, russian, 
slovene, uppersorbian, serbian, swedish, turkish, ukenglish, ukrainian, loaded.

(/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size12.clo
File: size12.clo 2004/02/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX file (size option)
)
\c@part=\count79
\c@section=\count80
\c@subsection=\count81
\c@subsubsection=\count82
\c@paragraph=\count83
\c@subparagraph=\count84
\c@figure=\count85
\c@table=\count86
\abovecaptionskip=\skip41
\belowcaptionskip=\skip42
\bibindent=\dimen102
)
(/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amslatex/amsmath.sty
Package: amsmath 2000/07/18 v2.13 AMS math features
\@mathmargin=\skip43

For additional information on amsmath, use the `?' option.
(/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amslatex/amstext.sty
Package: amstext 2000/06/29 v2.01

(/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amslatex/amsgen.sty
File: amsgen.sty 1999/11/30 v2.0
\@emptytoks=\toks14
\ex@=\dimen103
))
(/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amslatex/amsbsy.sty
Package: amsbsy 1999/11/29 v1.2d
\pmbraise@=\dimen104
)
(/usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amslatex/amsopn.sty
Package: amsopn 1999/12/14 v2.01 operator names
)
\inf@bad=\count87
LaTeX Info: Redefining \frac on input line 211.
\uproot@=\count88
\leftroot@=\count89
LaTeX Info: Redefining \overline on input line 307.
\classnum@=\count90
\DOTSCASE@=\count91
LaTeX Info: Redefining \ldots on input line 379.
LaTeX Info: Redefining \dots on input line 382.
LaTeX Info: Redefining \cdots on input line 467.
\Mathstrutbox@=\box26
\strutbox@=\box27
\big@size=\dimen105
LaTeX Font Info:    Redeclaring font encoding OML on input line 567.
LaTeX Font Info:    Redeclaring font encoding OMS on input line 568.
\macc@depth=\count92
\c@MaxMatrixCols=\count93
\dotsspace@=\muskip10
\c@parentequation=\count94
\dspbrk@lvl=\count95
\tag@help=\toks15
\row@=\count96
\column@=\count97
\maxfields@=\count98
\andhelp@=\toks16
\eqnshift@=\dimen106
\alignsep@=\dimen107
\tagshift@=\dimen108
\tagwidth@=\dimen109
\totwidth@=\dimen110
\lineht@=\dimen111
\@envbody=\toks17
\multlinegap=\skip44
\multlinetaggap=\skip45
\mathdisplay@stack=\toks18
LaTeX Info: Redefining \[ on input line 2666.
LaTeX Info: Redefining \] on input line 2667.
)
(./course_notes.aux)
\openout1 = `course_notes.aux'.

LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OML/cmm/m/it on input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for T1/cmr/m/n on input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OT1/cmr/m/n on input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMS/cmsy/m/n on input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for OMX/cmex/m/n on input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info:    Checking defaults for U/cmr/m/n on input line 5.
LaTeX Font Info:    ... okay on input line 5.

! Undefined control sequence.
l.7 \chapter
            {Chapter Name}
? 
Missing character: There is no â in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no € in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no ™ in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no â in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no € in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no ™ in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no â in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no € in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no ™ in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no â in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no € in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no ™ in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no â in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no € in font cmr12!
Missing character: There is no ™ in font cmr12!
[1

] (./course_notes.aux) ) 
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 817 strings out of 94308
 9203 string characters out of 1170117
 58517 words of memory out of 1500000
 4109 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+50000
 6821 words of font info for 25 fonts, out of 1000000 for 2000
 647 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
 27i,6n,20p,245b,189s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,6000p,200000b,5000s

Output written on course_notes.dvi (1 page, 1392 bytes).

edit: Okay well even though it says it doesn't work....it does. As long as I don't write "\chapter". That's a command in the latex help pdf i'm reading, but I guess I'll just ignore it for now...

[neoflight]

Are you using KDE or Gnome?

Anyway,

could you compile the same file from the command line?
if it is not giving any error then the problem is with the kile set up...

if not, find the directory where the executables are and then give that path in the kile set up and select run outside of kile....

kdvi, kpdf, and gv are not installed automatically... if you insist on using those then you may get it from the repos....

sudo aptitude install kdvi kpdf gv

hope this helps...

[venik212]

I wanted to use IEEEtran.cls in LyX, but did not know where to put it or how to makeit play nicely with LyX. Any ideas?

[Aramis]

I wanted to use IEEEtran.cls in LyX, but did not know where to put it or how to make it play nicely with LyX. Any ideas?

Hi there,

this problem is not directly related to this particular subject. Anyways, you have to make sure that this package is within your LaTeX repository, in my case, and most certainly for those who use TeXLive 2005 IEEEtran.cls is located in /usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf-dist/tex/latex/IEEEtran/IEEEtran.cls . Once this is done, you have to refresh the LaTeX database so the compilers knows that new paquages are present. This is typically achieved by texhash (if I am wrong NeoFlight will surely highlight it ). Finally, and perhaps most importantly, the location that LyX searches when compiling documents must be setup properly. I did have issues with IEEE packages, myself and it all came down the way my editor was setup. If worse comes to worse you could place the package directly into your document folder, and it should work as long as there is no dependency involved.

HTH,

Ar@mi$

[Mitlik]

Everything seems to work except for the straight export to pdf for me.
I have it setup for:
configuration: modern
type: run outside kile
class: compile
command: /usr/local/texlive/2005/bin/i386-linux/pdfetex
options: -src -interaction=nonstopmode '%source'
I use pdfetex since pdflatex was just linking to this one. When I run it I get:
[PDFLaTeX] finished with exit status 1
No log is produced, I get nothing. Anyone have any ideas?


//Edit
Okay, I sat down and I was actually able to figure out was was going wrong with the pdflatex thing, class is supposed to be latex not compile, and options don't need -src. I might have a problem with a package used by Kig, but I'm going to look and see if I can't import it somehow.

[toolisima]

Hi there,
I just recently moved from Windows to Ubuntu and I really like it and all...and in this change I am trying to have all the programs I need to use, including a LaTex editor.
So with a friend's help I installed Texmaker (don't even remember why this and not Kile) and is nice and all...but I don't have all the libraries I need (e.g. amsmath, SIunits, etc.) so I've been searching for the way to install them...but it all seems rather confusing and have no specialized help here anymore...my friend is in the other side of the world now Then I read your post but still don't get it! It seems that everyone likes better Kile.
Do you think is better to install Kile? With Kile I can have all the libraries? Is it easier to install the ones I don't have?