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Even after sudo apt-get install texlive-full on Linux I'm apparently missing latexindent. I can't configure any command with this application within TeXstudio because I get the following, as an example:

Error: Could not start the command: latexindent.pl -w "main".tex

Same error within the terminal calling from the same directory where I downloaded latexindent from its GitHub repository.

I checked for Perl in my system via info perl; it's installed.

How is this fixed?

useranonis
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  • Take a look at https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1092/how-to-install-vanilla-texlive-on-debian-or-ubuntu – cmhughes May 12 '18 at 18:17
  • @cmhughes I am not going through that. I edited my question too. – useranonis May 12 '18 at 18:21
  • Did you try installing it from tlmgr? Did you try updating the repository? sudo tlmgr option repository ctan; sudo tlmgr update --self; sudo tlmgr install latexindent – Andreas Storvik Strauman May 12 '18 at 18:35
  • @AndreasStorvikStrauman After the second command I obtain (running on Debian, switching to user mode!) tlmgr: Remote repository is newer than local (2017 < 2018) Cross release updates are only supported with update-tlmgr-latest(.sh/.exe) --update Please see https://tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html for details. – useranonis May 12 '18 at 18:45
  • Try the last command only. Alternatively, you could try installing the latest 2018 texlive verison. You can see https://tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html for details on this. – Andreas Storvik Strauman May 12 '18 at 18:51
  • You can try removing it and reinstalling it again first: sudo tlmgr remove latexindent. Or sudo tlmgr install --reinstall latexmk, but I still think you should upgrade your texlive installation :) – Andreas Storvik Strauman May 12 '18 at 18:53
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    Try removing the .pl extension so it's called as just latexindent not latexindent.pl. – Nicola Talbot May 12 '18 at 19:02
  • @NicolaTalbot, thank you. You've done it. I was up to date with TeXLive 2018 installed, by the way. – useranonis May 12 '18 at 19:08
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    @useranonis the error message you presented "tlmgr: Remote repository is newer than local (2017 < 2018) " begs to differ and that TeXLive2018 is not installed, but 2017. You can check tlmgr --version to make sure. – Andreas Storvik Strauman May 12 '18 at 19:12
  • @AndreasStorvikStrauman You're correct. Strangely, the installation directory has the folder root\usr\local\texlive\2018. – useranonis May 12 '18 at 19:19
  • @NicolaTalbot All the manual examples gave the extension.pl; how irritating... – useranonis May 12 '18 at 19:20
  • @useranonis It's latexindent.pl if you download it. Also if you do ls -l \which latexindent`` you will see that it's actually calling the .pl file!

    In regards to the version, what does echo $PATH give you?

     – Andreas Storvik Strauman May 12 '18 at 19:22
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    Please see the first two paragraphs of Section 3 of the manual, in particular In what follows, we will always refer to latexindent.pl, but depending on your operating system and preference, you might substitute latexindent.exe or simply latexindent. – cmhughes May 13 '18 at 08:31

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TeX Live on Unix-like systems creates symbolic links from the bin/architecture directory to the relevant script, but the symbolic file links always omit the file extensions. For example, bin/x86_64-linux/latexindent links to ../../texmf-dist/scripts/latexindent/latexindent.pl

This is more consistent with Unix file naming schemes, but the scripts are often distributed with an extension for the benefit of non-Unix-like systems, such as Windows. Since the script is distributed and is on CTAN with the extension, the manual often references the script name with the extension. (If the package/script author isn't aware of this behaviour then they won't think to mention it in the manual.)

Conversely, TeX distributions on Windows may convert the script into an executable, in which case the extension becomes .exe (such as latexindent.exe).

As @cmhughes commented below section 3 of the latexindent manual states:

In what follows, we will always refer to latexindent.pl, but depending on your operating system and preference, you might substitute latexindent.exe or simply latexindent.

Nicola Talbot
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    +1 many thanks for this :) You might reference the first few paragraphs of Section 3 of the manual available via texdoc latexindent as a PDF and online at http://latexindentpl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/sec-how-to-use.html – cmhughes May 13 '18 at 06:42
  • In what follows, we will always refer to latexindent.pl, but depending on your operating system and preference, you might substitute latexindent.exe or simply latexindent. – cmhughes May 13 '18 at 08:32
  • @cmhughes Thank you for the reference. (I thought it might help to have a more general answer, with latexindent as an example.) It's caught me out with makeglossaries-lite.lua. – Nicola Talbot May 13 '18 at 11:46
  • very nice :) I think your answer is great, and very helpful. I'm just going to note here that unix/linux terminals have an autocomplete feature when pressing the TAB button. For example, when I type latex at the terminal and then press TAB I receive a list of all of the different executables available to me that begin with latex. In this case, it includes latexindent. – cmhughes May 14 '18 at 14:49