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Okay I installed texlive 2012, just by following the guides from http://www.tug.org/texlive/.

Now when I downloadend, compiled and installed ipe7, the latest version. Now when I try something, draw/text etc, ipe tells me that it can't find pdflatex. Now I guessed that since I installed it from tug.org and not by a ubuntu package that it is now installed underneath a different directory. Pdflatex is located in the folder /usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux/

Now I found in the manual that you can use the command flag IPELATEXDIR to point to a different location where pdflatex is located. So I started ipe --IPELATEXDIR=/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux/ but it still tells me that it can't find pdflatex?

I tried to find a log file in ~/.ipe/ but only the latex file is located there.

Does anybody got any clue?

Martin Schröder
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    Does pdflatex compiling normally? Did you insert the texlive folder in you $PATH variable? What is the result of echo $PATH on the terminal? – Sigur Jul 08 '13 at 22:25
  • Oh no that I didn't do. I have my own custom command for compiling latex files which makes calls then pdflatex by just /dir/../dir/pdflatex. I will try to add the folder to $PATH variable. Thanks for the hint, hopefully this will solve the problem. – WG- Jul 08 '13 at 22:31
  • Here is my $PATH variable: /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/i386-linux/ – Sigur Jul 08 '13 at 22:33
  • Hmmm no it still says it can't find pdflatex. My $PATH variable is now PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux/:/usr/lib/lightdm/lightdm:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games – WG- Jul 08 '13 at 22:41
  • How did you change you variable? – Sigur Jul 08 '13 at 22:43
  • I just added /usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux/ to the path folder? Saved the .bashrc and restarted the terminal? If thats what you mean – WG- Jul 08 '13 at 22:44
  • Probably your path is updated only when you open the terminal. When you logoff and login again it'll be changed back to the default. This happened to me once. I suggest you to insert at the end of you ~/.profile file PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/i386-linux:$PATH; export PATH MANPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/man:$MANPATH; export MANPATH INFOPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2013/texmf-dist/doc/info:$INFOPATH; export INFOPATH – Sigur Jul 08 '13 at 22:48
  • It does not work unfortunately. I added the PATH and restarted the computer. Further it still does not seem to find pdflatex since it says The program 'pdflatex' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing: sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base. While the correct path where pdflatex is located is for sure included in the PATH folder. – WG- Jul 08 '13 at 23:34
  • So you have to fake the installation of texlive-latex-base and then any program which request it will be work (I guess). Read the section Fake Packages from here http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/95373/14757 – Sigur Jul 08 '13 at 23:37
  • Just followed all the steps, but didn't work either :(

    Maybe it is because I'm running 64 bit?

     – WG- Jul 09 '13 at 00:02
  • Try to compile Ipe for your processor. – Sigur Jul 09 '13 at 00:30
  • Btw: The curent version of TeXLive is 2013. – Martin Schröder Jul 09 '13 at 11:02
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    From the manual I get that IPELATEXDIR is an environment variable, not a command line option. So setting export IPELATEXDIR=/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux in your .bashrc might be the solution (with 2013, when you install the new TeX Live). – egreg Jul 09 '13 at 11:26

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IPELATEXPATH is an environment variable, not a command line option.

So either you call the program as

IPELATEXPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux ipe

or, better, you set

export IPELATEXPATH=/usr/local/texlive/2012/bin/x86_64-linux

in your .bashrc file (or .profile or whatever you prefer).

Caveat. Older versions of Ipe might want IPELATEXDIR.

egreg
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  • I know this question is very old, but it remains close to the top of search results, so this comment may be helpful. The environment variable is IPELATEXPATH (not ...DIR). Until recently there was a bug in ipe that prevented it from invoking luatex (though not pdftex) correctly in this situation, but at least in 7.2.21 it is now fixed, and it even respects $PATH. – Alex Watson Nov 27 '20 at 18:44
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    @AlexWatson I trust you. – egreg Nov 27 '20 at 20:37