Document Classes ⇒ Compilation of Presentation fails

[amyekut]

Hi,

I am having trouble with the beamer package in PDFLaTeX on my current installation. Previously all was well; and presently other LaTeX packages are OK.

Even a small sample file generates a lot of errors.

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\documentclass{beamer}

\begin{document}

\begin{frame}  
frame 1
TaTATATATta atatata $1234r$
\end{frame}

\begin{frame} 
frame 2 
 TaTATATATta atatata $1234r$
\end{frame}

\end{document}

My system is openSUSE 12.3 with TeX Live 2013 from the distributions repositories. Here is the top of the log file.

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This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013/TeX Live for opensuse.org)
 restricted \write18 enabled.
entering extended mode
(./test-beamer3.tex
LaTeX2e <2011/06/27>
Babel <3.9f> and hyphenation patterns for 78 languages loaded.
(/home/amyekut/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/base/beamer.cls
(/home/amyekut/texmf/tex/latex/beamer/base/beamerbasercs.sty)
Runaway argument?
Header$ \ProvidesPackage {\beamer@rcsfile }[\beamer@rcsdate \space (r\ETC.
! File ended while scanning use of \beamer@parseid.
<inserted text> 
                \par 
l.13 \ProvidesClassRCS
                       $Header$
Runaway argument?
Header$ \ProvidesClass {\beamer@rcsfile }[\beamer@rcsdate \space \beamer@versio
n \ETC.
! Paragraph ended before \beamer@parseid was complete.
<to be read again> 
                   \par 
l.15 

The full log file is attached.

Please help.
AMYEKUT

[localghost]

It seems that you have a CVS version of the beamer class which seems to cause the trouble. I wonder why the repository delivered it. Did you try to retrieve the recent package version from the »Publishing:TeXLive« repository by YaST?

Have you thought about installing a vanilla TeX Live instead of the version that openSUSE ships? The version from openSUSE misses the TLmgr (TeX Live Manager) for maintaining the system and updating packages. I run that vanilla system and it works fine.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[amyekut]

Hi Thorsten,

It seems that you have a CVS version of the beamer class which seems to cause the trouble. I wonder why the repository delivered it. Did you try to retrieve the recent package version from the »Publishing:TeXLive« repository by YaST?

I do have the latest from the SUSE repository.

Have you thought about installing a vanilla TeX Live instead of the version that openSUSE ships? The version from openSUSE misses the TLmgr (TeX Live Manager) for maintaining the system and updating packages. I run that vanilla system and it works fine.

Will try this.

Just to be sure: do you mean the package supplied by
http://www.tug.org/texlive/ ?
What is the best installation method on my SUSE system?

Thanks,

Amnon

[amyekut]

All seems well now. I added the "PATH=..." line to .profile, did a logout+login, and now OK.

Hi,

I installed the "vanilla" TEXLIVE, and it works well! But only from a terminal.

Now KILE refuses to work: the PDFLATEX gives "failed to start" message. (OKULAR does work!)

Any idea what to do?