Jekyll with Pygments on Arch Linux
As I am trying to blog more I came accross Pygments again and wanted to give
it a try. But I had to notice that Jekyll failed to highlight anything, because
of Arch Linux using Python3 as default (/usr/bin/python is linked to
/usr/bin/python3).
Lots of googling later I found out, that it isn’t exactly Jekyll’s fault, but a
problem with the pygments.rb gem. There
already is a pull request for this
issue which has been opened 3
months ago.
It really is easy to fix though, but I guess it might cause issues on other
Linux distributions which have no Python 3 at all and therefore no python2
command available.
For now I went to the gem’s installation path and changed mentos.py manually:
#!/usr/bin/env python2Quick and very dirty. A better solution probably would be to fork the gem’s repository, patch it to your needs and install that one.
Arvid Warnecke
arvid@nostalgix.org
