/usr/bin/rungs missing (essential to tex4ht)

[Krister Swenson]

I can no longer run htlatex, receiving the following error messages:

--- Warning --- System return: 32512
System call: rungs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dusecropbox -sDEVICE=pngalpha -r300 -sOutputFile="fig//expand-.png" "fig//expand.pdf"
sh: 1: rungs: not found

It appears as though /usr/bin/rungs is not include in the lunar package, despite being there in previous iterations:

https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=kinetic&arch=any&mode=exactfilename&searchon=contents&keywords=rungs

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.04
Package: texlive-base 2022.20230122-2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.2.0-26.26-generic 6.2.13
Uname: Linux 6.2.0-26-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.26.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Oct 4 17:27:47 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-01-05 (2098 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.04 "Zesty Zapus" - Release amd64 (20170412)
PackageArchitecture: all
RebootRequiredPkgs: Error: path contained symlinks.
SourcePackage: texlive-base
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to lunar on 2023-04-27 (160 days ago)

[Bernhard (rahra)]

I can confirm this. Same on 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat), texlive-base 2023.20240207-1.

[Norbert Preining (preining)]

Hi Hilmar,

On Wed, 26 Jun 2024, Bernhard wrote:
> /usr/bin/rungs missing (essential to tex4ht)
>
> Status in texlive-base package in Ubuntu:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> I can no longer run htlatex, receiving the following error messages:
>
> --- Warning --- System return: 32512
> System call: rungs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dusecropbox -sDEVICE=pngalpha -r300 -sOutputFile="fig//expand-.png" "fig//expand.pdf"
> sh: 1: rungs: not found

rungs should have been patched out of the config files. I think I have
done this in former times, but it seems recent packages still contain
`rungs` instead of `gs` itself.

Best regards

Norbert

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[Hilmar Preusse (hille42)]

Could you provide a short step-by-step description how to reproduce the issue? Thanks!

[Hilmar Preusse (hille42)]

I guess the solution is rather easy: We just need to create soft link /usr/bin/rungs, which points to ..../texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/rungs.lua Unfortunately our build system refers to texlive/rungs.tlu, which is the reason, why the link currently is not created.

hille@rasppi2:~/devel/TeXLive/github/texlive-nonbin $ dpkg-deb -c /var/lib/sbuild/build/texlive-base-Ta9dGD/texlive-base_2024.20240401-4_all.deb|grep rungs
-rwxr-xr-x root/root 1331 2022-09-11 21:08 ./usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/rungs.lua
lrwxrwxrwx root/root 0 2024-06-20 11:39 ./usr/bin/rungs -> ../share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/rungs.lua

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package texlive-base - 2024.20240706-1

---------------
texlive-base (2024.20240706-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream snapshot, disable obsolete patch.
  * Create correct soft link to .../texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/rungs.lua
    (LP: #2038452).
  * Sync scripts.lst from texlive-bin.

 -- Hilmar Preuße <email address hidden> Thu, 11 Jul 2024 23:31:48 +0200