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I am trying to run the following code through XeLaTeX, using the -shell-escape option:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{minted}

\begin{document}
\end{document}

The file is named guess.tex and the error I get is:

! Package catchfile Error: File `guess.w18' not found.

See the catchfile package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              

l.93     \CatchFileDef\@tempa{\ip@file}{}

If I remove \usepackage{minted} it runs fine.

I am using ubuntu 14.04 and I have tried this both with the texlive version in the ubuntu repositories and with texlive 2014 (through the net installer). My version of pygments is 2.0.2.

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  • Are you using the TeXlive version from the official Ubuntu repository? – Sigur Feb 18 '15 at 13:56
  • Yes, this is why I mentioned purging. I will edit my post. – odysseas Feb 18 '15 at 15:47
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    If you are going to use the most newer tools from the TeX world I recommend you to install TeXlive from its website not from the repository. – Sigur Feb 18 '15 at 15:48
  • Thanks, I will try going that way too. I am just wondering if anyone can reproduce the problem with this minimal example I have provided. It is striking to me that I do not actually _use minted code, I simply include the package. – odysseas Feb 18 '15 at 15:52
  • I have now downloaded and installed texlive 2014 using the net installer (instructions from [askubuntu.com/questions/486170/…). It still results in an identical error. This seems very odd to me, the input file is as minimal as it gets, it simply includes the minted package. – odysseas Feb 18 '15 at 19:24
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It seems that I am facing exactly the same problem. It does not make any sense for me. However, it only worked for me when I removed the spaces from the name of tex file. The original name had some spaces like this "programming language.tex" and I transformed into "programing.tex.

Why I tried this?

I tried to execute 

pdflatex -shell-escape programing language.tex

and it complained about finding "programming". So I tried this and it worked.

I am using Ubuntu 14.04 and kile as a tex editor.

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I've just had a similar problem, and got rid of it by merely closing the command line (I use it to compile my documents), opening another one, doing a clean and recompiling everything.

If you use an editor provided with a compile option, try closing and re-opening it.

EDIT: A temporary solution I found was to reboot the computer when encountering such an error, but it's pretty strange indeed.

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  • Do you experience the same problems when using pdflatex --shell-escape instead of xelatex --shell-escape? With pdflatex it seems it works. – logo_writer Sep 20 '15 at 4:58

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