Need help getting texlive to work properly with ancestor tree

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I originally posted this at the end of the report ancestor tree thread and thought it might get more attention in the help category…

I have been reading the thread about report ancestor tree for several days and yesterday decided to install Texlive. Well, I did, it went well. but then, when I try to run the report, It gives me an error trying to create a PDF file (it creates the latex file just fine). I have attached a picture of the error (it is trying to save to a file that does not exist, a tmp file and I cannot create it because each time I get this error, the folder name is different)
Screenshot from 2020-08-26 01-47-36
It was suggested that even though I had installed texlive-full that I might need texlive-latex-base I attempted that and got this message…
Screenshot from 2020-08-26 23-48-52
so I did not in fact need the additional package.

Does anyone know what is wrong or have any suggestions I can try to fix this? I am choosing my home folder but it is giving the error above, it is not recognizing my choice.

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You have an ampersand ("&") in your file name. Could you try without ?

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I tried, but it did not work
Screenshot from 2020-08-27 07-36-24

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screenshot of where i am tring to put it

Screenshot from 2020-08-27 07-39-01
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edit - also tried with file just named kathy in case it was too long

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Try short the filename, no more than 15 characters and see what happens, if same problem, try with 8 character in the filename…

might be the library has problems with logn filenames

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tried it just named kathy, and still got the same error

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also tried 8 characters

Screenshot from 2020-08-27 08-49-25

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Du you actually have the “tmp” folder? and do you have write permission to it?

I’m not a linux/mac guy, so I can just try to ask for things thats common on windows and network drive usage…

Maybe the doc. writer try to create a folder in a temp folder where you dont have write permission with your current login?

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there is not a tmp file. I tried creating one, both hidden and not hidden. and pointed the file location to there, did not help.
I do not understand why gramps will not just try to put the file where I told it too?

I really appreciate you folks trying to help.

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just as a test, I made sure the rest of Gramps recognizes my file names…this worked just fine

Screenshot from 2020-08-27 09-12-09

So the other parts of gramps can find my folders

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I’m thinking this is some latex library that’s doing this, it try to create a temporary pdf file when converting from latex to pdf…

Did you install the TexLive as “admin rights” (sudo) or without…

Thats the reason I was thinking, that the libriary responsible for the conversion of the file might be trying to create a temp file in a folder with no access, and if the “tmp” folder do not excist and it try to create it without permssion, you will get some error like this…

can’t you run a sysmon/filemon or something to see what actually calling that path?

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I’m sure there is some way to do that in linux, I don’t know what it is. I will try to do a bit of research

oh and yes, I used sudo to install

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well, there is a program called strace in linux. I am trying to figure out what the thousands of line it gave me means. I need to research this more.

Will be grateful for any ideas

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Have you tried running Gramps with “sudo”?

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I had not, but I just did. It did not make any difference. Gramps is still trying to make a folder. I ran search and found 3 tmp files. 2 for gimp 1 for libre office. I tried pointing gramps to each one - 1 at a time - none worked. I do have full permission for each file

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what happens if you try to create a latex file and convert it in one of the latex editors?

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ok, I got something! I reduced the number of generations to 5 and I got a pdf file. can’t see it very well, I think I have the paper set to big

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I can’t figure out what actual program converts the latex file

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OK, it works just fine with less generations. go figure!

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What is your linux distrib and version ?
what is the size of /tmp ? (df -k)