Bug 35851

2018-alt1_5.noarch

$ rpm -qf "$(which pdfbook)"
texlive-collection-basic-2018-alt1_5.noarch
$ pdfbook --no-tidy Zhuravleva_A_N_Finskaya_Grammatika_V_Tablitsakh_I.pdf 1-17
          ----
  pdfjam: This is pdfjam version 2.08.
  pdfjam: Reading any site-wide or user-specific defaults...
          (none found)
  pdfjam: Temporary directory for this job is
                    /var/tmp/pdfjam-N5Plto
  pdfjam: Effective call for this run of pdfjam:
          /usr/bin/pdfjam --booklet 'true' --landscape --suffix book --signature '4' --no-tidy -- Zhuravleva_A_N_Finskaya_Grammatika_V_Tablitsakh_I.pdf 1-17 
  pdfjam: Calling pdflatex...
  pdfjam: FAILED.
          The call to 'pdflatex' resulted in an error.
          If '--no-tidy' was used, you can examine the
          log file at
                  /var/tmp/pdfjam-N5Plto/a.log
          to try to diagnose the problem.
  pdfjam ERROR: Output file not written
$ tail -30 /var/tmp/pdfjam-N5Plto/a.log
) (/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xcolor/xcolor.sty
Package: xcolor 2016/05/11 v2.12 LaTeX color extensions (UK)
(/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics-cfg/color.cfg
File: color.cfg 2016/01/02 v1.6 sample color configuration
)
Package xcolor Info: Driver file: pdftex.def on input line 225.

! LaTeX Error: File `pdftex.def' not found.

Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
or enter new name. (Default extension: def)

Enter file name: 
! Emergency stop.
<read *> 
         
l.226 ...d{ver@\Gin@driver}{\input{\Gin@driver}}{}
                                                  ^^M
*** (cannot \read from terminal in nonstop modes)

 
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 907 strings out of 492649
 12580 string characters out of 6135769
 73209 words of memory out of 5000000
 4836 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+600000
 3640 words of font info for 14 fonts, out of 8000000 for 9000
 1141 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
 32i,0n,21p,255b,36s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,80000s
!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
$ fgrep /pdftex.def /ALT/S*/{noarch,x86_64}/base/contents_index 
/ALT/Sisyphus/noarch/base/contents_index:/usr/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics-def/pdftex.def	texlive-dist

but this package was not installed through the dependencies.

Workaround:

apt-get install texlive-dist

Now, pdfbook works.