Well, my dselect session began almost exactly 12 hours ago! The proper packages for my chose profile have all been installed and the setup program has been running for a couple of hours. Suddenly I get the following on the screen: Running initex. This may take some time. ... fmtutil : 'tex -ini-progname=latex latex.ini' failed. Can someone tell me what this is all about? Thanx David Kachel