LaTeX Math Conflicts on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
If using both our ‘LaTex and MathJax' plugin and 'LaTeX Math’ by Appfire our existing LaTeX Block Macros will display the following error.
Error rendering ‘latex’ macro: LaTeX Error: File ‘preview.sty’ not found.
This error message is from ‘LaTeX Math’ by Appfire and is displayed due to a conflict between our apps. Additionally, Appfire will log the same error in the 'atlassian-confluence.log’ file.
Impact
This issue (as far as we can tell) only affects Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). We have replicated this issue on both RHEL-8.6 and RHEL-9. From our testing, we know this issue does not affect Ubuntu 20.04.
Solution
In our testing, uninstalling 'LaTeX Math’ by Appfire and restarting Confluence resolves this issue.