Error: Unable to locate TeX Live's binary directory

[izzalDev]

When running the teatimeguest/setup-texlive-action@v3 action with the configuration below, an error occurs indicating that the TeX Live binary directory cannot be located:

- name: Setup TeX Live
  uses: teatimeguest/setup-texlive-action@v3
  with:
    package-file: |
      ./.github/template_deps.txt
      ./.github/basictex_deps.txt

The action begins by parsing the dependencies from the template_deps.txt and basictex_deps.txt files, and it successfully restores the cache. However, it encounters the following error:

Run teatimeguest/setup-texlive-action@v3
  with:
    package-file: ./.github/template_deps.txt
  ./.github/basictex_deps.txt
  
    cache: true
    tlcontrib: false
    update-all-packages: false
Looking for `package-file`...
Parsing `/home/runner/work/PPB_A11.47[2](https://github.com/izzalDev/PPB_A11.4721/actions/runs/12094412889/job/33726430317#step:4:2)1/PPB_A11.4721/.github/template_deps.txt`...
Parsing `/home/runner/work/PPB_A11.4721/PPB_A11.4721/.github/basictex_deps.txt`...
[3](https://github.com/izzalDev/PPB_A11.4721/actions/runs/12094412889/job/33726430317#step:4:3)65 package(s) found: adjustbox ae amscls amsfonts amsmath anysize arabxetex atbegshi attachfile2 attachfile2.universal-darwin atveryend automata auxhook babel babel-basque babel-czech babel-danish babel-dutch babel-english babel-finnish babel-french babel-german babel-hungarian babel-italian babel-norsk babel-polish babel-portuges babel-spanish babel-swedish babelbib background bbcard beamer bibtex bibtex.universal-darwin bidi bidi-atbegshi bidicontour bidipagegrid bidipresentation bidishadowtext bigintcalc bitset blockdraw_mp bookmark booktabs bpolynomial breqn businesscard-qrcode caption carlisle cite cm cmap cmarrows collectbox collection-basic collection-latex collection-latexrecommended collection-metapost collection-xetex colorprofiles colortbl cqubeamer crop csquotes ctable ctablestack dehyph drv dviincl dvipdfmx dvipdfmx.universal-darwin dvips dvips.universal-darwin ec emp enctex epsincl epstopdf-pkg eso-pic etex etex-pkg etexcmds etoolbox euenc euler eurosym everypage everysel everyshi expressg exteps extsizes fancybox fancyhdr fancyref fancyvrb featpost feynmf feynmp-auto filehook firstaid fix2col fixlatvian fiziko float font-change-xetex fontbook fontspec fontwrap footmisc footnotebackref footnotehyper fp framed fvextra garrigues geometry gettitlestring glyphlist gmp graphics graphics-cfg graphics-def grfext grffile hatching hershey-mp hologo hopatch huffman hycolor hyperref hyph-utf8 hyphen-base hyphen-basque hyphen-czech hyphen-danish hyphen-dutch hyphen-english hyphen-finnish hyphen-french hyphen-german hyphen-hungarian hyphen-italian hyphen-norwegian hyphen-polish hyphen-portuguese hyphen-spanish hyphen-swedish hyphenex ifplatform iftex index infwarerr intcalc interchar jknapltx knuth-lib knuth-local koma-script kpathsea kpathsea.universal-darwin kvdefinekeys kvoptions kvsetkeys l3backend l3experimental l3kernel l3packages latex latex-base-dev latex-bin latex-bin.universal-darwin latex-firstaid-dev latex-fonts latex-lab latexbug latexconfig latexmp letltxmacro lineno listings lm lm-math ltxcmds ltxmisc lua-alt-getopt lua-uni-algos luahbtex luahbtex.universal-darwin lualibs luaotfload luaotfload.universal-darwin luatex luatex.universal-darwin luatexbase lwarp lwarp.universal-darwin ly1 makecmds makeindex makeindex.universal-darwin mathspec mathtools mcf2graph mdframed mdwtools memoir metafont metafont.universal-darwin metago metalogo metaobj metaplot metapost metapost-colorbrewer metapost.universal-darwin metauml mflogo mfnfss mfpic mfpic[4](https://github.com/izzalDev/PPB_A11.4721/actions/runs/12094412889/job/33726430317#step:4:4)ode mfware mfware.universal-darwin microtype minim-hatching modes mp3d mparrows mpattern mpchess mpcolornames mpgraphics mptopdf mptopdf.universal-darwin mptrees mweights na-position natbib needspace newfloat ntgclass oberdiek pagecolor pagesel parskip pdfcolfoot pdfescape pdflscape pdfmanagement-testphase pdfpages pdftex pdftex.universal-darwin pdftexcmds pgf philokalia piechartmp plain polyglossia psfrag pslatex psnfss pspicture ptext ragged2e rcs realscripts refcount repere rerunfilecheck revtex roex roundrect sansmath scheme-basic scheme-infraonly scheme-minimal scheme-small section seminar sepnum setspace shapes simple-resume-cv simple-thesis-dissertation slideshow soul sourcecodepro sourcesanspro splines stringenc suanpan subfig symbol synctex synctex.universal-darwin tetragonos tex tex-ini-files tex.universal-darwin texlive-common texlive-en texlive-msg-translations texlive-scripts texlive-scripts.universal-darwin texlive.infra texlive.infra.universal-darwin textcase textpath threeddice thumbpdf thumbpdf.universal-darwin times tipa titling tlshell tlshell.universal-darwin tools translator typehtml ucharcat ucharclasses ulem underscore unicode-bidi unicode-data unicode-math unimath-plain-xetex uniquecounter unisugar upquote url xcolor xdvi xdvi.universal-darwin xebaposter xechangebar xecjk xecolor xecyr xeindex xelatex-dev xelatex-dev.universal-darwin xesearch xespotcolor xetex xetex-itrans xetex-pstricks xetex-tibetan xetex.universal-darwin xetexconfig xetexfontinfo xetexko xevlna xfrac xkeyval xltxtra xpatch xunicode xurl zapfding zbmath-review-template zref
Restoring cache
  Received 1048[5](https://github.com/izzalDev/PPB_A11.4721/actions/runs/12094412889/job/33726430317#step:4:5)7[6](https://github.com/izzalDev/PPB_A11.4721/actions/runs/12094412889/job/33726430317#step:4:6)00 of 260296302 (40.3%), 100.0 MBs/sec
  Cache Size: ~248 MB (260296302 B)
  /usr/bin/tar -xf /home/runner/work/_temp/0f84e19b-d[7](https://github.com/izzalDev/PPB_A11.4721/actions/runs/12094412889/job/33726430317#step:4:7)e7-4bda-9600-604cc3cf15b7/cache.tzst -P -C /home/runner/work/PPB_A11.4721/PPB_A11.4721 --use-compress-program unzstd
  Received 260296302 of 260296302 (100.0%), 124.1 MBs/sec
  Cache restored successfully
  /home/runner/work/_temp/setup-texlive-action/2024 restored from cache with key: setup-texlive-action-linux-x64-2024-bc31d157[8](https://github.com/izzalDev/PPB_A11.4721/actions/runs/12094412889/job/33726430317#step:4:8)e2362765f355ec342787336c5ccaba54c20a[9](https://github.com/izzalDev/PPB_A11.4721/actions/runs/12094412889/job/33726430317#step:4:10)649805bb962ff9d4b8
| Error: Unable to locate TeX Live's binary directory
|     at Object.add (setup-texlive-action/v3/packages/texlive/src/tlmgr/actions/path.ts:13:[11](https://github.com/izzalDev/PPB_A11.4721/actions/runs/12094412889/job/33726430317#step:4:12))
|     at main (setup-texlive-action/v3/packages/action/src/runs/main/index.ts:44:3)
|     at run (setup-texlive-action/v3/packages/action/src/runs/index.ts:[12](https://github.com/izzalDev/PPB_A11.4721/actions/runs/12094412889/job/33726430317#step:4:13):7)
|     at setup-texlive-action/v3/packages/action/src/index.ts:4:1 {
|   [cause]: Error: /home/runner/work/_temp/setup-texlive-action/2024/bin has multiple entries
|       at uniqueChild (setup-texlive-action/v3/packages/utils/src/fs.ts:41:11)
|       at Object.add (setup-texlive-action/v3/packages/texlive/src/tlmgr/actions/path.ts:11:11)
|       at main (setup-texlive-action/v3/packages/action/src/runs/main/index.ts:44:3)
|       at run (setup-texlive-action/v3/packages/action/src/runs/index.ts:12:7)
|       at setup-texlive-action/v3/packages/action/src/index.ts:4:1
| }
Error: Error: Unable to locate TeX Live's binary directory

When the cache is set to false or the cache is removed entirely, no issues occur, and the action runs successfully.

[muzimuzhi]

[cause]: Error: /home/runner/work/_temp/setup-texlive-action/2024/bin has multiple entries

Interesting. Maybe you can list the entries in that directory, using

- name: Setup TeX Live
  uses: teatimeguest/setup-texlive-action@v3
  with:
    package-file: |
      ./.github/template_deps.txt
      ./.github/basictex_deps.txt
- name: List entries
  if: failure()
  run: ls -l /home/runner/work/_temp/setup-texlive-action/2024/bin

I guess one possible cause is that multi-platform installations were cached, or cache created for another platform was restored.

---

For an instant workaround, just delete the cache and rerun the job?

[izzalDev]

For an instant workaround, just delete the cache and rerun the job?

Yeah, but this method consumes GitHub runner quota, which might not be ideal for long-term solutions.

Output from the List entries step:

Run ls -l /home/runner/work/_temp/setup-texlive-action/2024/bin
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 runner docker [4](https://github.com/izzalDev/PPB_A11.4721/actions/runs/12094687869/job/33726995730#step:5:5)096 Nov 30 04:01 universal-darwin
drwxr-xr-x 2 runner docker 4096 Nov 30 04:01 x8[6](https://github.com/izzalDev/PPB_A11.4721/actions/runs/12094687869/job/33726995730#step:5:7)_64-linux

[muzimuzhi]

Remove the disturbing links we get

Run ls -l /home/runner/work/_temp/setup-texlive-action/2024/bin
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 runner docker 4096 Nov 30 04:01 universal-darwin
drwxr-xr-x 2 runner docker 4096 Nov 30 04:01 x86_64-linux

What's the platform your job runs on? And would you mind further listing what's inside universal-darwin and x86_64-linux?

[izzalDev]

What's the platform your job runs on? And would you mind further listing what's inside universal-darwin and x86_64-linux?

I am running on ubuntu-latest. Here is the complete workflow:

name: Generate Dokumentasi

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  push:

jobs:
  generate:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

      - name: Setup TeX Live
        uses: teatimeguest/setup-texlive-action@v3
        with:
          package-file: |
            ./.github/template_deps.txt
            ./.github/basictex_deps.txt
            
      - name: List entries
        if: failure()
        run: ls -l /home/runner/work/_temp/setup-texlive-action/2024/bin

      - name: Setup Pandoc
        uses: r-lib/actions/setup-pandoc@v2
        with:
          pandoc-version: 3.5

      - name: Run documentation script
        run: bash ../.github/docs.sh "Rizal Fadlullah" "A11.2019.12070"
        working-directory: praktikum_8

      - name: Upload a file to Google Drive
        uses: adityak74/google-drive-upload-git-action@main
        with:
          filename: ./praktikum_8/PRAKTIKUM_8.pdf
          credentials: ${{ secrets.CREDENTIALS }}
          folderId: ${{ secrets.FOLDER_ID }}
          overwrite: true 

[muzimuzhi]

According to texlive doc,

Available platforms: 
=============================================================================== 
   a [ ] ...
   b [ ] MacOSX current (10.14-) on ARM/x86_64 (universal-darwin) 
   ...
   i [X] GNU/Linux on x86_64 (x86_64-linux) 

It's wired that universal-darwin was created on a ubuntu-latest runner. Maybe there are some macos-only command-line tool packages listed in your package file?

What would ls -l /home/runner/work/_temp/setup-texlive-action/2024/bin/universal-darwin list?

[izzalDev]

What would ls -l /home/runner/work/_temp/setup-texlive-action/2024/bin/universal-darwin list?

BasicTeX Dependencies.txt

Yeah, I copied all the default packages from BasicTeX, and after removing the packages with the *.universal-darwin extension from the list, it worked fine.

It would be great if you could add validation for the package file.

Thanks, @muzimuzhi

[teatimeguest]

Thank you for reporting the problem, @izzalDev. And thank you for investigating it, @muzimuzhi.

It would be great if you could add validation for the package file.

I have created a new issue on this feature (#332). I am a bit tied up right now with the end of the year looming, but will work on it in my free time.