# Need help getting texlive to work properly with ancestor tree **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [August 27, 2020, 10:22am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654 "2020-08-27T10:22:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Wildkat](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/wildkat/32/1143_2.png) [@Wildkat](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Wildkat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 10:22am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654/1 "2020-08-27T10:22:55Z")
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](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/1X/1291e17706c9b34301cafa556105540f69da42d1.png) 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](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/1X/7f96e52bb3c0246f1a054abee2b4990e4716e966.png) 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. ---
**Author:** ![SNoiraud](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/snoiraud/32/72_2.png) [@SNoiraud](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/SNoiraud)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 11:32am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654/2 "2020-08-27T11:32:38Z")
You have an ampersand ("&") in your file name. Could you try without ? ---
**Author:** ![Wildkat](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/wildkat/32/1143_2.png) [@Wildkat](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Wildkat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 11:37am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654/3 "2020-08-27T11:37:43Z")
I tried, but it did not work ![Screenshot from 2020-08-27 07-36-24](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/1X/f9218f7a9bf6d8a1647ba61799084e0317b71d95.png) ---
**Author:** ![Wildkat](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/wildkat/32/1143_2.png) [@Wildkat](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Wildkat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 11:40am UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654/4 "2020-08-27T11:40:26Z")
screenshot of where i am tring to put it ![Screenshot from 2020-08-27 07-39-01](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/1X/f5bfcb07294692c13eb9562ec563bc050b8e7afe.png) edit - also tried with file just named kathy in case it was too long ---
**Author:** ![StoltHD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@StoltHD](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/StoltHD)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 12:45pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654/5 "2020-08-27T12:45:10Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Wildkat](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/wildkat/32/1143_2.png) [@Wildkat](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Wildkat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 12:46pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654/6 "2020-08-27T12:46:23Z")
tried it just named kathy, and still got the same error ---
**Author:** ![Wildkat](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/wildkat/32/1143_2.png) [@Wildkat](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Wildkat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 12:50pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654/7 "2020-08-27T12:50:09Z")
also tried 8 characters ![Screenshot from 2020-08-27 08-49-25](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/1X/f886179b4d3d3cdfcf407393f486c4895610156d.png) ---
**Author:** ![StoltHD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@StoltHD](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/StoltHD)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 1:00pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654/8 "2020-08-27T13:00:10Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Wildkat](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/wildkat/32/1143_2.png) [@Wildkat](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Wildkat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 1:08pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654/9 "2020-08-27T13:08:14Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Wildkat](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/wildkat/32/1143_2.png) [@Wildkat](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Wildkat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 1:13pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654/10 "2020-08-27T13:13:29Z")
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](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/gramps/original/1X/89e2b8c95337f1873f4539dd23b2d0880b100622.png) So the other parts of gramps can find my folders ---
**Author:** ![StoltHD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@StoltHD](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/StoltHD)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 1:14pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654/11 "2020-08-27T13:14:44Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![Wildkat](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/wildkat/32/1143_2.png) [@Wildkat](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Wildkat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 1:18pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654/12 "2020-08-27T13:18:38Z")
> [@StoltHD](#): > > sysmon/filemon 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 ---
**Author:** ![Wildkat](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/wildkat/32/1143_2.png) [@Wildkat](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Wildkat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 1:24pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654/13 "2020-08-27T13:24:24Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![StoltHD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@StoltHD](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/StoltHD)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 1:32pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654/14 "2020-08-27T13:32:11Z")
Have you tried running Gramps with “sudo”? ---
**Author:** ![Wildkat](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/wildkat/32/1143_2.png) [@Wildkat](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Wildkat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654/15 "2020-08-27T13:40:58Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![StoltHD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/db5fbb/32.png) [@StoltHD](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/StoltHD)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 1:47pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654/16 "2020-08-27T13:47:08Z")
what happens if you try to create a latex file and convert it in one of the latex editors? ---
**Author:** ![Wildkat](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/wildkat/32/1143_2.png) [@Wildkat](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Wildkat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654/17 "2020-08-27T13:48:00Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Wildkat](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/wildkat/32/1143_2.png) [@Wildkat](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Wildkat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654/18 "2020-08-27T13:48:56Z")
I can’t figure out what actual program converts the latex file ---
**Author:** ![Wildkat](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/wildkat/32/1143_2.png) [@Wildkat](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/Wildkat)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 1:50pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654/19 "2020-08-27T13:50:58Z")
OK, it works just fine with less generations. go figure! ---
**Author:** ![SNoiraud](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/gramps.discourse.group/snoiraud/32/72_2.png) [@SNoiraud](https://gramps.discourse.group/u/SNoiraud)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2020, 1:51pm UTC](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654/20 "2020-08-27T13:51:07Z")
> [@Wildkat](#): > > 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 What is your linux distrib and version ? what is the size of /tmp ? (df -k) [Next page](https://gramps.discourse.group/t/need-help-getting-texlive-to-work-properly-with-ancestor-tree/654.md?page=2)