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Satas

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Registered: 2015-09-02

Posts: 25

[SOLVED] Kile find texlive only when started from konsole

Hello,

after installing arch linux one week ago I enjoy the new system and it makes a lot of fun to set up it. A lot is done with the help of topics from this forum. Thanks.

I use KDE 5 with Plasma 5.3.

But I have a problem:

Kile runs properly and finds my manually installed texlive 2015 when I start it form konsole.

But when I try to start it from the KDE Apps Launcher Kile does not see the texlive packages.

I have modified the ./bashrc and added

TEXDIR="/usr/local/texlive/2015"
export PATH=$TEXDIR/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH  # for 64-bit installation
export INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:$TEXDIR/texmf-dist/doc/info
export MANPATH=$MANPATH:$TEXDIR/texmf-dist/doc/man
export PATH=$PATH:~/.bin

When I start from Apps Launcher and use the "run in terminal" option, I get a Plasma Error:

KDEInit could not launch '/usr/bin/konsole'

Kile starts but can not compile anything.

Same happens, when using

konsole -e kile

As command to start the application.

It is not a very big deal, because I can start it from terminal and it works, but I would like to know, what goes wrong here.

Thank you for help

Last edited by Satas (2015-09-02 18:19:25)

Raynman

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Registered: 2011-10-22

Posts: 1,539

Re: [SOLVED] Kile find texlive only when started from konsole

~/.bashrc is for interactive shells. Those settings should be in some kind of "profile" file. You could add something like texlive.sh in /etc/profile.d/ to set the (system-wide) tex paths and then extend $PATH further with ~/.bin in ~/.profile (or whatever gets sourced by whatever you use to login and launch your KDE session).

Satas

Member

Registered: 2015-09-02

Posts: 25

Re: [SOLVED] Kile find texlive only when started from konsole

Thank you. It works now. Just added the texlive.sh to the profile.d directory. Nothing else was needed...