In message <[🔎] Pine.GSO.3.96.970821184911.24989A-100000@ren.eecis.udel.edu>, write
s:
>I installed tetex-{base,bin,extra} today. Running latex produces:
>
>I can't find the default format file!
>
>having searched for an hour through tetex documentation (and been very
>confused by the concept of kpathsea), I find that this is either
>texmf.cnf or latex.fmt (I can't figure out which). So:
>
>1) locate texmf.cnf shows it in /etc/texmf/, but there are no files in
>this directory according to "ls".
I have:
$ ls -l /etc/texmf
total 94
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80 Jan 5 1997 XDvi
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 19 08:24 dvips
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1867 Feb 14 1997 language.dat
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2720 Jun 19 08:29 maketex.site
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 83730 Dec 7 1996 modes.mf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3815 Jun 19 08:29 texmf.cnf
It looks as if something has gone wrong with your installation
of tetex.
>2) latex.fmt is in /usr/lib/texmf/web2c, but running kpathsea doesn't
>find it. I might not be running it right, because I'm not really sure
>what I'm doing.
>
>Can someone help me get tetex configured?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Will
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