when running texmaker i get the following error

texmaker: error while loading shared libraries: libpoppler-qt4.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory


I've tried to modify LD_LIBRARY_PATH and then texmaker worked and latex failed with the following error

error while loading shared libraries: libpoppler.so.59: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Hello,

On which slackware version. 14.1 ? 14.2 ?

This library comes from package poppler which seems to be not installed on your system. Install it to solve that issue.

This library come from package poppler. On Slackware 14.2 (poppler-0.45.0), this library is at version 62.0.0. I don't know which version of slackware comes with version 59. To fix that issue, you need to rebuild package texmaker.

P.S: I just build texmaker with its dependencies on a Slackware64 VM, and all is working well so far.

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Seb

but i have poppler installed but texmaker can't find it
NB: i've checked in /usr/local/lib

I'm on linux zenwalk 8 (based on slackware 14.2)

How did you install latex? I looked on the zenwalk website and it does not list tetex as one of the packages (tetex being the default version installed by slackware 14.2).

i' ve installed latex with the tar given on the website

It is unclear from your answer what website you are referring to.

I suggest that you install Robby Workman's texlive package from http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/. I think that it is the best latex distribution. You need to choose the right one depending on whether you have 32 or 64 bit. You should first uninstall whatever latex you have installed. It is built for 14.2. It is possible that, since Zenwalk seems to have removed some packages, you may be missing some dependencies, but I doubt it and even so that is easy to deal with.

Edited: forgot to put the link

I would recommend going for sbo-tools

and installing any from there?

Zenwalk, while derived from-, pretty much differs from Slackware in versions:

They (Zenwalk devs)"roll their own", so versions are in mismatch pretty much all the time.

The support for texlive was handed over some time ago if I remember correctly. So it probably is better to use the more up to date version that is on SBo. See: https://slackbuilds.org/result/?search=texlive&sv=14.2 That version has pretty recent upstream patches applied to it.

Robby's package is the current Tex Live 2016 version.

I usually do use slackbuilds and compile myself, only I gave up doing that with latex a couple of versions back because it required tons of build space and took way too long. Maybe that's no longer a problem, but using Robby's package is just so easy (Thanks Robby

I don't believe Robby will be providing any more updates. He was fine with Franzen taking over and it is now Franzen's work on SBo. I just don't believe Robby updated his packages on his personal site.

https://lists.slackbuilds.org/piperm...ry/015667.html
https://lists.slackbuilds.org/piperm...ly/016606.html

at least following packages are needed(direct elf-dependencies) to build texlive, maybe this also works on zenwalk:
cairo,fontconfig,freetype,gcc,gcc-g++,gd,ghostscript,glibc-solibs,gmp,icu4c,libX11,libXaw,libXi,libXmu,libXpm,libXt,libpng,mpfr,pixman,poppler,zlib

The needs sourcefiles from SBO are about 130Mb, xz-compressed
Diskspace for building are about 1300Mb.
Buildtime(make -j5 on my intel-i3) is about 15Minutes.
The resulting package ist about 75Mb as .txz

This package is meant to have similar functionality as tetex, so this is not the complete texlive distribution. To get a full texlive installation, texlive-extra(120Mb about),texlive-fonts(about 500Mb) and texlive-docs(about 1300Mb) are also needed from SBo.

Johannes

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