Re: Problems with TeTex

[Esko Lehtonen <esko.lehtonen@pp.htv.fi>]

Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've installed TeTeX on my machine (from slink), but I can't get it
> running.
> 
> I ran
> 
>         texhash
>         texconfig all
> 
> as root, but when I try to translate a file with "latex file" of "tex
> file" I get the following error message
> 
>         This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2)
>         I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
> 
> The FAQ says to do a "texconfig init", but that won't help either.  A
> "locate .fmt" shows nothing.
> 
> Something, that might be related is that "kpsexpand -p fmt" shows a path
> with "!!" at the beginning of some entries, as in
> 
> .:/home/viktor/texmf/web2c:!!/usr/lib/texmf/local/web2c:!!/usr/lib/texmf/web2c
> 
> Any ideas?
> 

I got this same problem a little time ago. I am sorry that I can't
remember how exactly I solved it. Some guesses:

1. Do you have somekind of Web2C package installed? If not, install.
2. After reinstalling the every tetex and latex package I managed to get
latex.fmt file, but it didn't still work. Finally, when I copied it to
something like /usr/lib/texmf/we2c/base or /usr/lib/texmf/we2c/config
everything worked well.

I have upgraded to Potato, and I have no problems. Maybe you could do
that too? In my Potato I have latex.fmt files in directories:

/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/base/latex.fmt
/usr/lib/texmf/tex/latex/config/latex.fmt
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt


I hope this will help you a bit.

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EL