.. blogpost:: :title: Nbconvert requires recent version of latex :keywords: nbconvert, texlive :date: 2019-11-11 :categories: installation The latest version of nbconvert which converts notebooks into latex requires recent version latex > 2016. To install a more recent version on debian: :: echo "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian sid main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/texlive-sid.list sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install texlive texlive-latex-extra texlive-xetex OR you can follow `TeX Live - Quick install `_.