MiKTeX on QubesOS

[jrossmann]

Hi,

I run MiKTeX on QubesOS (don't know if this matters). I need to user some private style files, but they are always reported as not found.

so xelatex <file.tex> gives (I replaced the actual filenames, they should not matter):

  ! LaTeX Error: File `<my.sty>' not found.

  Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
  or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)

  Enter file name: 

when I do kpsewhich -all <my>.sty I get no result.

I dug in the khathsea lib documentation and found the following to find all matches in all directories:

    kpsewhich -show-path=tex >/tmp/texpath # search path specification
    kpsewhich -expand-path="`cat /tmp/texpath`" >/tmp/texdirs # all dirs
    tr ':' '\n' </tmp/texdirs >/tmp/texdirlist # colons to newlines
    find `cat /tmp/texdirlist` -iname somefile.tex -print </tmp/texdirlist

I usually use xonsh. The last command produce an error there (find: ‘cat /tmp/texdirlist’: No such file or directory ; I think xonsh being essentially a python interpreter will interfere with the backticks). The second command already only produces an empty file (most likely for the same reason).

If I run the commands in a bash, /tmp/texdirlist contains /home/user/texmf/tex and /home/user/texmf/tex/latex. This is where <my.sty> is.

Even in xonsh find /home/user/texmf/tex/ -iname <my.sty> -print and find /home/user/texmf/tex/latex -iname <my.sty> -print will both find the file.

Any idea what's wrong here? Am I missing something obvious?

Kind regards

Jan