pdflatex dos not compile

[Peter Ragosch]

Am Sun, 2 Jan 2022 04:25:34 +0100
schrieb Peter Ragosch <peter.ragosch at kabelmail.de>:

> Am Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:06:40 +0200
> schrieb Partha Pratim Ghosh <ghosh.parthapratim.unisa at gmail.com>:
> 
> > Dear TUG Members,
> > 
> > Firstly, please let me wish you all a very happy and a prosperous
> > New Year....
> > 
> > I installed Texlive2021 fresh after deleting previous installations
> > of texlive packages. The installation went fine but the following
> > file:
> > 
> > ---- test LaTeX package---
> > [snip]
> > ---- locate article.cls output----
> > [partha at Galois ~]$ locate article.cls
> > /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seuthesis/zharticle/zharticle.cls
> > /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/doc/lualatex/wallcalendar/doc/memoir-article.cls
> > /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/luaintro/exaarticle.cls
> > /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/afparticle/afparticle.cls
> > /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/bangtex/barticle.cls
> > /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> > /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/elsarticle/elsarticle.cls
> > /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/extsizes/extarticle.cls
> > /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/gzt/gztarticle.cls
> > /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hagenberg-thesis/hgbarticle.cls
> > /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/koma-script/scrarticle.cls
> > /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/quantumarticle/quantumarticle.cls
> > /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/skb/skbarticle.cls
> > /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tlc-article/tlc-article.cls
> > /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex-dev/base/article.cls
> > ---------------end of output-----------------------
> > 
> > Any help towards reslving the issue would be highly appreciated.
> > 
> > With my regards and all the very best wishes,
> > 
> > partha
> 
> Maybe a stupid idea, but did you adjust the texlive-path in 
> ~/.bashrc ?
> 
> # TexLive
> TL_DIR="/usr/local/texlive/2021"
> export PATH=$TL_DIR/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH
> export MANPATH=$TL_DIR/texmf-dist/doc/man:$MANPATH
> export INFOPATH=$TL_DIR/texmf-dist/doc/info:$INFOPATH
> 
> peter
> 
Follow-up:

The following tlmgr command list all local installed packages containing
the file pattern "*article.cls*" 

~> # tlmgr search --file --word article.cls
latex:
        texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
latex-base-dev:
        texmf-dist/tex/latex-dev/base/article.cls
~> # 

At least the command should list one package: latex.
I installed almost all texlive packages and got a list of 20 packages,
but only the packages shown above contain exactly a file named
"article.cls". As far as I know, the second package "latex-base-dev" is
not absolutely necessary.

The "article.cls" file in your list was found with the system command
locate. However, this is not a statement about a possibly successful
tex-internal file search.

I hope my explanation was understandable and helped you to fix the
problem.

peter 
(a simple but longtime tex user)