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Hello Tejas !

Manual should be built even without xindy.
Xindy is the tool that generates the index.

try to install it

sudo apt-get install xindy
>

and run the make command again.

--John



2012/8/26 Tejas Kale <kaletejas2006@xxxxxxxxx>

> Hi Patrick
>
> Thanks for the help. The default locations were indeed provided in
> square brackets but I didn't realize that they were the ones I was
> looking for. Anyways, I installed TexLive successfully as well as the
> required packages. But when I compiled the file using 'make', I get
> the following error:-
>
> *** Unable to execute: 'xindy  -L english -L english -C utf8 -I xindy
> -M "ubuntu-manual" -t "ubuntu-manual.glg" -o "ubuntu-manual.gls"
> "ubuntu-manual.glo"' ***
>
> Status report:
>
> *** - EVAL: variable /TMP/X46TWY0W65 has no value
>
> Google search didn't provide any solution to this problem. I am sorry
> to constantly bother you with these trivial problems.
>
> Thanks and hope I am not spoiling your weekend.
>
> Tejas
>
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 12:47 AM, Patrick Dickey <pdickeybeta@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Hi Tejas,
> >
> > When you hit "L", it should prompt you for each directory (and have the
> > default in the brackets). If it doesn't have the defaults there, then
> > here are what you'll select (based on my setup right now)
> >
> >
> >> <L> create symlinks in standard directories:  [X]
> >>             binaries to: /usr/local/bin
> >>             manpages to: /usr/local/man
> >>                 info to: /usr/local/info
> >>
> >
> > I should note that before I hit "L", the directories were empty. They
> > were populated when I hit "L" and selected the default values for each.
> > Essentially, I'm doing exactly what you are. I removed my current
> > installation, and am running it from the install-tl file that I
> > downloaded from the Authors page.
> >
> > Hope this helps, and have a great weekend.:)
> > Patrick.
> >
> > On Sun, 2012-08-26 at 00:09 +0530, Tejas Kale wrote:
> >> Thanks for the help, Patrick. You guessed it right, I didn't pay
> >> attention and forgot to select the symlinks option. I uninstalled
> >> texlive and restarted the process. After running install-tl, I entered O
> >> and then L. Upon entering O, I am asked for 'New value for Binary
> >> directory', 'New value for main directory' and 'New value for info
> >> directory' with no defaults provided. What default directories should I
> >> enter?
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >> Tejas
> >>
> >> On Saturday 25 August 2012 11:54 PM, Patrick Dickey wrote:
> >> > When you ran the installation, did you select the option to create the
> >> > symlink?
> >> >
> >> >  From the GetInvolved Authors page:
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >>          You should also enable the creation of the symlinks:
> >> >>
> >> >>               1. From the main TeX Live installation menu select
> >> >>                  Options (O).
> >> >>               2. From the Options menu, select “create symlinks in
> >> >>                  standard directories” (L).
> >> >>               3. The default directories are usually okay.
> >> >>               4. Press R to return the main menu.
> >> >>
> >> >>          Once those are installed, we can install the remainder of
> the
> >> >>          packages with the install-pkgs.sh script. (Note that this
> >> >>          hasn’t been tested yet and it’s pure guesswork on Kevin’s
> >> >>          part! Let us know if it does or doesn’t work for you.)
> >> > If not, then you can do the removal and reinstallation steps again,
> and
> >> > it should work.
> >> >
> >> > Hope this helps, and have a great weekend.:)
> >> > Patrick.
> >> >
> >> > On Sat, 2012-08-25 at 20:40 +0530, Tejas Kale wrote:
> >> >> Hello
> >> >>
> >> >> I have recently started as a author for the upcoming manual and will
> >> >> be writing the 'Viewing and Editing Photos' section. Following the
> >> >> guidelines on the 'Getting Started as an Author or Editor' page
> >> >> (http://ubuntu-manual.org/getinvolved/authors), I installed the 2012
> >> >> version of TexLive. The installation was complete and a 'texlive'
> >> >> folder of size 3.2GB has been created at the following location:-
> >> >>
> >> >> /usr/local/
> >> >>
> >> >> But when I execute the command -
> >> >>
> >> >> sudo bash install-packages.sh
> >> >>
> >> >> I get an error saying
> >> >>
> >> >> "Checking TeX Live version...No version of TeX Live was detected."
> >> >>
> >> >> If I try executing the 'make' command, I get the following error:-
> >> >>
> >> >> "basename: extra operand `frontmatter'
> >> >> Try `basename --help' for more information.
> >> >> bzr version-info --custom --template="\\\revinfo{{revno}}{{date}}" >
> >> >> revision.tex
> >> >> xelatex --output-driver="xdvipdfmx -V 5" ubuntu-manual
> >> >> /bin/bash: xelatex: command not found
> >> >> make: *** [ubuntu-manual.pdf] Error 127"
> >> >>
> >> >> Any help would be highly appreciated.
> >> >>
> >> >> Thanks and regards
> >> >> Tejas
> >> >>
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