Re: [Matthias Faulstich] Re: Installation /Configuration Problem with tetex

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Matthias Faulstich <faulstich@elon07.fh-swf.de> wrote:

> I'm becoming root with "su" only.

So that's consistent and shouldn't create problems.

> Hmm.
> I tried to compile an old latex file as root (getting with su), but i get the 
> same mistake:
>
> As user:
> matthias@mfai1:~/tmp$ latex test-tex
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
> fmtutil: format `latex' not available.
> I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

Since the bug occurs here,too, let's stick to the user case.  And let's
repeat all the checks we did previously, and some more:

Please post the output of the following commands:

dpkg -l tex-common tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra
/usr/share/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr  --cmd find --file fmtutil.cnf
grep latex `/usr/share/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr  --cmd find --file fmtutil.cnf`
egrep "^latex( |	)" `/usr/share/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr  --cmd find --file fmtutil.cnf`
#(in the last command, there's a space before the | and a tab after it).
kpsewhich -progname=latex -format=tex latex.ini
ls -ld /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config
ls -l /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/

> As root:
[...]
> fmtutil-sys: fmtutil-sys: unknown option `latex.fmt'. Try fmtutil-sys --help 
> for help.

This is actually a bug in fmtutil-sys, it seems - but it is not the
source of your problems.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer