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Uy Linux

Reputation: 3

I got sh: latex: command not found error when try to text latex and manim

$ python3 -m manim example_scenes.py WriteStuff -pl

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sh: latex: command not found

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/Users/pi/Documents/ManimInstall/manim/manimlib/extract_scene.py", line 155, in main
    scene = SceneClass(**scene_kwargs)
  File "/Users/pi/Documents/ManimInstall/manim/manimlib/scene/scene.py", line 75, in __init__
    self.construct()
  File "example_scenes.py", line 100, in construct
    example_text = TextMobject(
  File "/Users/pi/Documents/ManimInstall/manim/manimlib/mobject/svg/tex_mobject.py", line 147, in __init__
    SingleStringTexMobject.__init__(
  File "/Users/pi/Documents/ManimInstall/manim/manimlib/mobject/svg/tex_mobject.py", line 42, in __init__
    file_name = tex_to_svg_file(
  File "/Users/pi/Documents/ManimInstall/manim/manimlib/utils/tex_file_writing.py", line 21, in tex_to_svg_file
    dvi_file = tex_to_dvi(tex_file)
  File "/Users/pi/Documents/ManimInstall/manim/manimlib/utils/tex_file_writing.py", line 69, in tex_to_dvi
    raise Exception(
Exception: Latex error converting to dvi. See log output above or the log file: /Users/pi/Documents/ManimInstall/manim/media/Tex/c0bd21d57323a926.log

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2384

Answers (2)

Yapi
Yapi

Reputation: 314

from here https://github.com/3b1b/manim/issues/1661

add latex path to environment variable (mac):

export PATH="/usr/local/texlive/2022/bin/universal-darwin:$PATH"

Upvotes: 0

naveen521kk
naveen521kk

Reputation: 140

Did you install Latex?

The error

sh: latex: command not found

says that manim tries, to find latex but couldn't find it. Possibly you may not have installed latex.

Assuming you are on Ubuntu or Debian, run,

sudo apt install texlive-full

to install latex and things should work then.

Upvotes: 1

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