missing latex.fmt and pdflatex.fmt files
Dominique Lohez <[email protected]> Fri, 15 Sep 2006 12:21:11 +0200
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050206050107090006020308 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit i I am upgrading my system to fedora core 5 linux from the the scratch I have installed the following teTex package from the rpm /tetex-3.0-17.i386.rpm-3.0-17.i386.rpm tetex-afm-3.0-17.i386.rpm tetex-latex-3.0-17.i386.rpm tetex-fonts-3.0-17.i386.rpm tetex-dvips-3.0-17.i386.rpm tetex-xdvi-3.0-17.i386.rpm/ Additionnally I have installed /latex2html-2002-2.1-5.1.rpm / Trying to run latex with some existing file i am asked for a missing file latex.fmt in the following context This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt fmtutil: format `latex' not available. I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! Similarly runing pdflatex with the same file I am asked for the missing file pdflatex.fmt Searching from the existing *.fmt files i get the following list /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/lambda.fmt /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/mptopdf.fmt /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex.fmt /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/etex.fmt /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/omega.fmt /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/lamed.fmt /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/amstex.fmt /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/bamstex.fmt */usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/pdflatex.fmt* /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/aleph.fmt */usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/latex.fmt* /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/bplain.fmt /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/cont-en.fmt /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/tex.fmt /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex.fmt /usr/share/texmf/web2c/platex209-jis.fmt /usr/share/texmf/web2c/platex209.fmt /usr/share/texmf/web2c/platex209-euc.fmt /usr/share/texmf/web2c/platex-jis.fmt /usr/share/texmf/web2c/platex-sjis.fmt /usr/share/texmf/web2c/ptex-jis.fmt /usr/share/texmf/web2c/ptex.fmt /usr/share/texmf/web2c/platex.fmt /usr/share/texmf/web2c/ptex-sjis.fmt /usr/share/texmf/web2c/platex-euc.fmt /usr/share/texmf/web2c/ptex-euc.fmt /usr/share/texmf/web2c/platex209-sjis.fmt Since both pdflatex.fmt and latex.fmt do exist and not listed in /usr/share/texmf-var/ls-R regenerating this file allow to correct the problem. Now my question Why the file ls-R is not uptodate Do i update all such files ( there is a lot ) have to be updated to avoid further difficulties ? Thank for your help Dominique --------------050206050107090006020308 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> i<br> <br> I am upgrading my system to fedora core 5 linux from the the scratch<br> <br> I have installed the following teTex package from the rpm <br> <i>tetex-3.0-17.i386.rpm-3.0-17.i386.rpm<br> tetex-afm-3.0-17.i386.rpm<br> tetex-latex-3.0-17.i386.rpm<br> tetex-fonts-3.0-17.i386.rpm<br> tetex-dvips-3.0-17.i386.rpm<br> tetex-xdvi-3.0-17.i386.rpm</i> <br> <br> Additionnally <br> I have installed <br> <i>latex2html-2002-2.1-5.1.rpm </i><br> <br> <br> Trying to run latex with some existing file <br> i am asked for a missing file latex.fmt<br> in the following context<br> <br> <font face="Courier">This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)<br> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt<br> fmtutil: format `latex' not available.</font><br> I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!<br> <br> Similarly runing pdflatex with the same file <br> I am asked for the missing file pdflatex.fmt<br> <br> Searching from the existing *.fmt files i get the following list <br> <br> <font face="Courier">/usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/lambda.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/mptopdf.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/etex.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/omega.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/lamed.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/amstex.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/bamstex.fmt<br> <b>/usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/pdflatex.fmt</b><br> /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/aleph.fmt<br> <b>/usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/latex.fmt</b><br> /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/bplain.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/cont-en.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/tex.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c/pdfetex.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/platex209-jis.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/platex209.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/platex209-euc.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/platex-jis.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/platex-sjis.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/ptex-jis.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/ptex.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/platex.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/ptex-sjis.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/platex-euc.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/ptex-euc.fmt<br> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/platex209-sjis.fmt<br> <br> Since both pdflatex.fmt and latex.fmt do exist and not listed in /usr/share/texmf-var/ls-R regenerating this file allow to correct the problem.<br> <br> <br> Now my question Why the file ls-R is not uptodate <br> Do i update all such files ( there is a lot ) have to be updated to avoid further difficulties ?<br> <br> <br> Thank for your help<br> <br> <br> Dominique<br> </font><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> </body> </html> --------------050206050107090006020308--