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Adam Monsen
Asked: 2012-02-27 22:56:51 +0800 CST

pandoc on Ubuntu can't use beamer

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I'm using pandoc to author slides. I'd like to see how the beamer PDF output looks, but I'm getting an error:

$ pandoc -t beamer talk.txt -o talk.pdf
pandoc: Unknown writer: beamer

Any ideas?

presentation 11.10 slideshow pandoc

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Answered my own question. beamer support was added in pandoc 1.9 (2012-02-05), but my Ubuntu 11.10 desktop has pandoc 1.8.1.1.

    I updated pandoc as follows:

    sudo apt-get autoremove pandoc
sudo apt-get install cabal-install
cabal update
cabal install pandoc

    Notice the last two commands do not use sudo.

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