Bug#422391: xetex/xelatex complains about xetex.fmt not being found

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Wouter Bolsterlee <uws@xs4all.nl> wrote:

> Package: texlive-xetex
> Version: 2007-5
>
> Running xetex or xelatex on any input file results in an error like this:
>
>   $ xetex somefile.tex 
>   This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>    %&-line parsing enabled.
>   kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xetex.fmt
>   I can't find the format file `xetex.fmt'!
>   
> The installation seems succesful though:
>
>   $ sudo apt-get install --reinstall texlive-xetex
>   Reading package lists... Done
>   Building dependency tree... Done
>   0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 3 not upgraded.
>   Need to get 0B/6402kB of archives.
>   After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
>   Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
>   (Reading database ... 201861 files and directories currently installed.)
>   Preparing to replace texlive-xetex 2007-5 (using .../texlive-xetex_2007-5_i386.deb) ...
>   Unpacking replacement texlive-xetex ...
>   Setting up texlive-xetex (2007-5) ...
>   Running mktexlsr. This may take some time... done.
>   Building format(s) --byfmt xetex. This may take some time... done.
>   Building format(s) --byfmt xelatex. This may take some time... done.
>
> Am I doing something wrong?
>
>   mvrgr, Wouter

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Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)