pdflatex dos not compile

[Peter Ragosch]

Am Sat, 01 Jan 2022 12:06:40 +0200
schrieb Partha Pratim Ghosh <ghosh.parthapratim.unisa at gmail.com>:

> Dear TUG Members,
> 
> Firstly, please let me wish you all a very happy and a prosperous New
> Year....
> 
> I installed Texlive2021 fresh after deleting previous installations of
> texlive packages. The installation went fine but the following file:
> 
> ---- test LaTeX package---
> [snip]
> ---- locate article.cls output----
> [partha at Galois ~]$ locate article.cls
> /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seuthesis/zharticle/zharticle.cls
> /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/doc/lualatex/wallcalendar/doc/memoir-article.cls
> /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/luaintro/exaarticle.cls
> /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/afparticle/afparticle.cls
> /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/bangtex/barticle.cls
> /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/elsarticle/elsarticle.cls
> /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/extsizes/extarticle.cls
> /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/gzt/gztarticle.cls
> /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hagenberg-thesis/hgbarticle.cls
> /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/koma-script/scrarticle.cls
> /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/quantumarticle/quantumarticle.cls
> /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/skb/skbarticle.cls
> /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tlc-article/tlc-article.cls
> /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/tex/latex-dev/base/article.cls
> ---------------end of output-----------------------
> 
> Any help towards reslving the issue would be highly appreciated.
> 
> With my regards and all the very best wishes,
> 
> partha

Maybe a stupid idea, but did you adjust the texlive-path in 
~/.bashrc ?

# TexLive
TL_DIR="/usr/local/texlive/2021"
export PATH=$TL_DIR/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH
export MANPATH=$TL_DIR/texmf-dist/doc/man:$MANPATH
export INFOPATH=$TL_DIR/texmf-dist/doc/info:$INFOPATH

peter