Re: Installation /Configuration Problem with tetex

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

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

> Actually, I have this packages installed:
> ii  tetex-base 3.0-10    Basic library files of teTeX
> ii  tetex-bin    3.0-10.1 The teTeX binary files
> ii  tetex-doc   3.0-10    The documentation component of the Debian teTeX 
> packages
> ii  tetex-extra  3.0-10    Additional library files of teTeX
>
> But now, I get the message
>
> latex filename.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'!
>
> Can you give me any hint how to recreate the latex.fmt file?

Please send us the output of the following commands:

ls -l /etc/texmf/fmt.d/
grep latex /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf 
kpsewhich --format='web2c files' fmtutil.cnf

Regards, Frank


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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer