.. blogpost:: :title: Pandoc on ubuntu and WSL :keywords: documentation, sphinx, pandoc :date: 2017-08-20 :categories: documentation I was using the `Windows Subsystem for Linux `_ to test a module with Linux. I could not make it work due to an old version of :epkg:`pandoc`. Surprisingly, the default ``apt-get install pandoc`` installed a very old version (1.12). I could not convert any notebook with `nbconvert `_ into latex. I finally installed the latest version (1.19) and it worked perfectly. You can see the installation step in file `.circleci/config.yml `_. That was not the last issue because *pandoc* seems to be very slow on WSL. About that, you can read: `massive delay to call pandoc using the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) or Bash for Windows `_, `stack ghc painfully slow `_.