[SOLVED] Latex - missing `zref-abspage.sty'

SpacePlod · 08-07-2023, 11:03 PM

I'm trying to use a template (Eisvogel) with pandoc to convert a markdown file to a specifically formatted PDF.

The command fails with:

Code:

Error producing PDF.
! LaTeX Error: File `zref-abspage.sty' not found.

The template documentation mentions that these errors come from an incomplete Latex installation:

Quote:

Eisvogel requires a full texlive distribution that can be installed by running apt-get install texlive-full in the terminal. Because texlive-full is very large (about 5 Gigabytes) you can also install the smaller texlive bundles and add any missing packages manually.

A smaller texlive bundle is texlive-latex-extra. With texlive-latex-extra you also need to install these packages manually:

adjustbox babel-german background bidi collectbox csquotes everypage filehook
footmisc footnotebackref framed fvextra letltxmacro ly1 mdframed mweights
needspace pagecolor sourcecodepro sourcesanspro titling ucharcat ulem
unicode-math upquote xecjk xurl zref.

I have texlive-extra installed and updated from SBo (I'm using 15.0). I'm assuming once I fix the zref package error, I'll run into others from the list above. Is there a "Slackware" way of easily finding and installing these? I found a "zref" package, but it contains no .sty files.

I found this thread: https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...-a-4175725348/

...but have not been able to parse a useful answer from it for my specific problem. TIA

Petri Kaukasoina · 08-08-2023, 12:15 AM

At least zref-abspage.sty and zref.sty are in texlive-extra. Did you read file README: "To integrate this package, you have to do the following steps as root user..." (See page https://slackbuilds.org/repository/1...texlive-extra/ )

You can see that you have zref-abspage.sty by

Code:

grep zref-abspage.sty /var/adm/packages/texlive*

Or, if you first do what README tells you to do:

Code:

grep zref-abspage.sty /usr/share/texmf-*/ls-R

If you miss a package, use the search box in https://ctan.org/. To install the package, look at post #22 in the thread you found.

SpacePlod · 08-08-2023, 09:45 AM

Thanks for the response. I've been using Latex on Slackware for awhile now without many issues, and I'm pretty sure I followed the steps in the README. The packages lists the missing file:

Code:

$ grep zref-abspage.sty /var/lib/pkgtools/packages/texlive-*
/var/lib/pkgtools/packages/texlive-extra-2023.230322-x86_64-1_SBo:usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/zref/zref-abspage.sty

But it's not where it should be:

Code:

$ find /usr/share/texmf-dist/ -name zref-abspage.sty
<no output>

There are files in the tex/latex subdir, so they're not all missing. I obviously screwed something up somewhere. Removing and re-installing texlive-extra fixed the issue. From reading the other thread I just assumed it was a missing package and went down that rabbit hole without checking the obvious first.

Thanks for getting me back on track.