Re: latex2e.fmt not found by xemacs

[Tom Cook <tom.cook@adelaide.edu.au>]

Sebastian Canagaratna wrote:
> 
> Hi:
> 
>   I an using sarge and I upgraded yesterday. In xemacs latex2e
>   Interactive works, but latex2e does not. So I linked, in /usr/bin/
>   latex2e to tex, and copied /usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt to
>   latex2e.fmt, ran texconfig
>   but when I click on latex2e in xemacs, it cannot find
>   latex2e.fmt.  I get the same message when I run latex2e file
>   from the command line. When I copied latex2e.fmt to the directory
>   in which the tex file was, it works. So clearly, this is a path
>   problem.  I believe I did the same thing a few months ago
>   on the other machine that
>   I have (sarge, but not upgraded froma few months), and there I don't
>   have any difficulty.
> 
>   I am puzzled that there is a path problem, because I thought texconfig
>   would look after this.
> 
>   Any suggestions?

I think you need to install tetex-extras.

Tom