Re: xetex update via tlmgr fails

Norbert Preining <[email protected]> Thu, 2 Apr 2026 00:05:08 +0300

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> fmtutil [INFO]: failed to build: 5 (xetex/xetex xetex/cont-en xetex/pdfcsplain xetex/xelatex-dev xetex/xelatex)
[...]
> And I never use xetex, so if I can just disable it or remove from the
> install that would be a perfect solution, how can I do that?

for fmt in xetex/xetex xetex/cont-en xetex/pdfcsplain xetex/xelatex-dev xetex/xelatex ; do
  fmtutil-sys --disablefmt $fmt
done

Should do it

Best regards

Norbert

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