Linux Log: Tuesday, April 15, 2025

Published on: Apr 15, 2025 at 06:26 AM • 1 min read

It’s 6:30 AM and I’m already exhausted. I just want to be able to do the things in Emacs that I’ve been doing for years. This morning, for example:

I can’t build pdf-tools. I get “No such program: dnf” even though exec-path appears fine. I tried building it by hand directly in the elpa folder. It build OK, but when I open a PDF I get “File mode specification error: (file-error Doing vfork Exec format error)” I need to be able to read PDFs.

Worse, I can’t export org files to PDF: “xelatex: command not found”. xelatex is there and is available in my path. I’ve tried installing exec-path-from-shell just in case, but no joy. This seems like a path issue, but I can’t figure it out. Not being able to export Org to PDF is a deal breaker.

There’s no package for Espanso, so I suppose I need to build it myself. I’d rather not.

I still don’t have /usr/bin/emacs or /usr/bin/emacsclient installed because I they’re v29.4 and I need 30, like the GUI that was installed via Software. Shouldn’t running dnf install emacs do the same thing as installing via Software by default?

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