Bug#170102: TeX doesn't work...

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: Richard Levitte - VMS Whacker <levitte@stacken.kth.se>
Subject: Bug#170102: TeX doesn't work...
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 23:49:38 +0100 (CET)

> I have no idea how to express this better.  Trying to latex a file, I
> get things like this:
> 
> : ; latex slides2.tex
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.9)
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt  latex.fmt
> fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
> I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
> 
> I've looked for mktex.opt, fmtutil.cnf and latex.fmt.  They exist:

Not sure but is there a symlink as the following ?

civic:~$ ls -ld /usr/share/texmf/web2c
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 2002-11-20 14:17 /usr/share/texmf/web2c -> /var/lib/texmf/web2c

If not, please do

cd /usr/share/texmf
ln -s /var/lib/texmf/web2c .
mktexlsr

It seemed that sometimes this symlink was removed by
accident.

Thanks

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.