Generating index when compiling document

[Herbert Voss]

Am 02.12.22 um 20:47 schrieb Rich Shepard:
> On Fri, 2 Dec 2022, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
>> $ texindy biota-to-set-wq-standards.idx
>> texindy: not a symlink as required for TeX Live at /usr/bin/texindy 
>> line 414.
>
> Okay. Found the problem, but the solution doesn't work.
>
> I copied texindy.pl into /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/ where its 
> perms are
> 755.
>
> In /usr/bin/ I deleted texindy and created a soft-link to
> /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/texindy.pl. The /usr/bin/ version has 
> perms:

/usr/local/bin   makes more sense to me

> # ll texindy
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 40 Dec  2 11:41 texindy -> 
> /usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/texindy.pl
>
> When I try to run the script (as a user) the response is:
> $ texindy biota-to-set-wq-standards.idx
> -bash: /usr/bin/texindy: Permission denied
>
> This puzzles me as /usr/bin/texindy is a link with 777 perms.

Are you really sure, that there is no other copy in your system?

which -a texindy

what happens if you run

/usr/share/texmf-dist/scripts/texindy.pl biota-to-set-wq-standards.idx

and

/usr/bin/texindy biota-to-set-wq-standards.idx

However, official reinstalling should fix the permission problem:

sudo apt-get --reinstall install xindy

Herbert