Re: Format file not found - solution

>>>>> "Gerhard" == Gerhard Wilhelms <[email protected]> writes:

  > Hi, all I had to do was disabling account based configuration to a
  > global configuration by editing

  > /usr/local/texlive/2005/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf

There are now two programs, texconfig and texconfig-sys.

The best way is to use texconfig-sys instead of editing files manually
to perform the system-wide configuration.  texconfig now allows users
to have their own configurations and apache will use the system-wide
configuration.

For instance, you can instruct dvips globally to send its output to a
file (using texconfig-sys).  Each user is still able to convince dvips
to send output to a printer of his/her choice (using texconfig).

If you run texconfig as root, you create a personal configuration for
user root in /root/.texlive2005/texmf-var .  I suppose this happened
to you.

% working configuration for Ember
TEXMFVAR = $TEXMFMAIN

The idea of $TEXMFVAR is that modified config files do not overwrite
files provided by the distribution.  You just disabled this feature.

A few things had been changed a few months ago, so it´s worthwhile to
read the TeXLive (or teTeX) documentation.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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