[LON-CAPA-admin] LaTeX Errors with Printing

Wed Dec 7 13:20:58 EST 2016

JaBari,

If the picins.sty file is already there, but is empty, you could  
overwrite it by using the following command (all one one line):

wget -O /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins/picins.sty  
http://install.loncapa.org/ctan/tex-archive/macros/latex209/contrib/picins/picins.sty

and then use the command:

/usr/bin/texconfig rehash

Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium

Quoting JaBari A Scott <jascott at vcu.edu>:

> Good Morning:
> My issues are strange to the recommendations in that the file picins.sty
> exist, but it's empty.  And that's the same on the other access server.  I
> followed the steps you provided, but yet, the file remains there, but void
> of content.
>
>
> JaBari A. Scott
> Applications Analyst, Learning Systems
> Technology Services
> Virginia Commonwealth University
> jascott at vcu.edu | (804) 828-7310
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: lon-capa-admin-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org
> [mailto:lon-capa-admin-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org] On Behalf Of Stuart
> Raeburn
> Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2016 2:29 PM
> To: lon-capa-admin at mail.lon-capa.org
> Subject: Re: [LON-CAPA-admin] LaTeX Errors with Printing
>
> JaBari,
>
> When you run ./UPDATE to install LON-CAPA, it should check for the
> existence of /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins/picins.sty, and install it,
> if required, assuming this is a Linux distro where the TeX package does
> not automatically include it. Wwhat Linux distro do you have installed on
> these access servers?
>
> If you still have access to the lon-capa-2.11.1 directory within which you
> ran ./UPDATE to install LON-CAPA on your new access servers, then you can
> use the following commands (as root) to install
> /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins/picins.sty and then run
> /usr/bin/texconfig rehash.
>
> cd loncapa-2.11.1/loncom/build
>
> cat ../../doc/loncapafiles/picins_check.piml | \ perl piml_parse.pl
> "development" "rhes6" "" |perl
>
> (assuming you have Red Hat 6Server installed).
>
> However, you might look in the WARNINGS file created when you ran ./UPDATE
> to install LON-CAPA to see if there is a message about picins.sty (it
> should be very close to the end of the file).
>
> It might say something like:
>
> "/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins/picins.sty created and
> /usr/bin/texconfig rehash ran successfully."
>
> or
>
> "No action required - /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins/picins.sty
> already exists."
>
>
>
> Stuart Raeburn
> LON-CAPA Academic Consortium
>
>
> Quoting JaBari A Scott <jascott at vcu.edu>:
>
>> Good Morning:
>>
>> Thank you for that information Mike.  Upon further investigation, the
>> two access servers that are plagued with this issue have those files,
>> but they are empty!  I?m not sure if a package needs to be
>> reinstalled.  Is there a package that yum can install for this?  I?m
>> assuming there may be more files than just copying the
>> </usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins/picins.sty>
>> file from one server to another.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> JaBari A. Scott
>>
>> Applications Analyst, Learning Systems
>>
>> Technology Services
>>
>> Virginia Commonwealth University
>>
>> jascott at vcu.edu | (804) 828-7310
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>>
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>>
>>
>> *From:* lon-capa-admin-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org [mailto:
>> lon-capa-admin-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org] *On Behalf Of *Budzik, Michael
> J.
>> *Sent:* Monday, December 05, 2016 11:33 AM
>> *To:* lon-capa-admin at mail.lon-capa.org
>> *Subject:* Re: [LON-CAPA-admin] LaTeX Errors with Printing
>>
>>
>>
>> Not sure if this is intermittent or not.  If it consistently fails, we
>> had a similar issue.  My notes say:
>>
>> The permissions on a latex file needed corrected so the web server
>> could read it. To be exact, the following commands were ran:
>>
>>
>>
>> chmod 755 /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins
>>
>> chmod 644 /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/picins/picins.sty
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Mike B
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* lon-capa-admin-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org [
>> mailto:lon-capa-admin-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org
>> <lon-capa-admin-bounces at mail.lon-capa.org>] *On Behalf Of *JaBari A
>> Scott
>> *Sent:* Monday, December 5, 2016 10:28 AM
>> *To:* lon-capa-admin at mail.lon-capa.org
>> *Subject:* [LON-CAPA-admin] LaTeX Errors with Printing
>>
>>
>>
>> Good Morning All:
>>
>> Our instance has developed a strange, inconsistent problem in the past
>> week.  Printing in LON-CAPA is not working 100% of the time on 3 of
>> our Access servers and is inconsistent on the Library server.  The
>> error message that is presented is:
>>
>>
>>
>> LaTeX could not successfully parse your TeX file.
>>
>> It probably has errors in it.
>>
>> Here are the error messages in the LaTeX log file:
>>
>> ! LaTeX Error: File `picins.sty' not found.
>>
>>
>>
>> Type X to quit or  to proceed,
>>
>> or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)
>>
>>
>>
>> Enter file name:
>>
>> ! Emergency stop.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> l.3 ...kage{wrapfig}\usepackage{picins}\usepackage
>>
>>                                                   [T1]{fontenc}^^M
>>
>> End of file on the terminal!
>>
>>
>>
>> I am completely at a lost as to what to even check for a this juncture
>> as the LaTeX package appears to be installed on the servers.  Any
>> advice from the gallery?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks so much!
>>
>>
>>
>> JaBari A. Scott
>>
>> Applications Analyst, Learning Systems
>>
>> Technology Services
>>
>> Virginia Commonwealth University
>>
>> jascott at vcu.edu | (804) 828-7310
>>
>>
>>
>> [image: Bb Signature]
>>
>>
>>
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