Just wanted to note the following - if you have installed texlive from a script, then obviously all the necessities are on your system - but evince could still fail opening the DVI because it doesn't know where the texmf.cmf file is.
That can be remedied by use of TEXMFCNF variable - however, that is not all; even after setting it correctly, you may get "Permission Denied". That problem is due to apparmor controlling evince, and is described here: [SOLVED] texlive 2009 + evince = no love - Ubuntu Forums - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8690020 What I did was: sudo mv /etc/apparmor.d/usr.bin.evince /etc/apparmor.d/disable/ sudo shutdown -r now ... and after restart, I could run: TEXMFCNF=/path/to/texlive/2011/texmf/web2c evince mytemp.dvi ... and tex fonts are generated, and the document renders in evince.. Note that calling this path however: TEXMFCNF=/path/to/texlive/2011 evince mytemp.dvi ... will actually *not* work, even if there is a texmf.cnf file there - it may fail with "page: Error: could not load font" in stdout, and "Unable to open document" in evince. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to evince in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/42410 Title: evince reports "incorrect format" for DVI files when no TeX distribution is installed. evince should Suggests tetex-bin Status in Evince document viewer: New Status in “evince” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: When opening a DVI file with evince, if no TeX distribution is available, the error claims that the DVI file is at fault, rather than the installation. "Unable to open document", and below that, "DVI document has incorrect format". The DVI document, however, may be perfectly fine; the issue is that evince doesn't have DVI support installed. The error behavior should be changed to make this clear. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/evince/+bug/42410/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
