Subject: Re: TeX & LaTeX (can't find format file)
From: Roy Smith (roy@aoraki.ece.ucsb.edu)
Date: Sun Feb 27 2000 - 15:33:16 MST
Dear Conrado,
I use it frequently and recall having the same problem.
I did manage to fix it and I've attached the notes that
I wrote up about it at the time.
Regards,
Roy
Conrado W Seibel writes ...
> Is anyone using TeX and/or LaTeX on yellow dog linux champion server
> 1.1?
>
> If I try to run TeX it complains with:
> I can't find the format file 'tex.fmt'!
>
> LaTeX complains about not being able to find 'latex.fmt'
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Conrado
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1st Feb 2000
Attempt to install latest teTeX distribution (1.0.7) directly
from Thomas Esser's site. As per his install instructions
we begin with,
% mkdir /usr/local/temp
% cd /usr/local/temp
% mkdir binaries base doc fonts goodies
ftp sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/
ftp> cd /pub/comp/tex/teTeX/current/distrib
ftp> bin
ftp> dir binaries
ftp> prompt
ftp> mget install.sh base doc fonts goodies binaries/powerpc-linux-libc61.tar.gz.tar.gz
ftp> quit
The choice of binary assumes that we have glibc2.1.1 (which I hope
we do).
To get this to install properly I also downloaded:
binaries/powerpc-linux-lib60.tar.gz
binaries/powerpc-linux-lib6.tar.gz
The install shell runs beautifully with the command:
% /bin/sh install.sh
The symbolic links to /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/man and
/usr/local/info were set up as part of the menu driven
installation.
To get kpsewhich to work and texmf.cnf to be found I had to:
1. Remove all traces of prior teTeX installation attempts.
These were parts of srpm packages.
2. Set the environment variable:
% setenv TEXMFCNF /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c
for each user
3. Edit /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf.
The $SELFAUTO... feature doesn't seem to work. The paths
are expanded incorrectly. The following paths were
hardcoded here.
TEXMFMAIN = /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf
TEXMFCNF = /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf/web2c
It's not clear if both changes are necessary.
4. Remove /usr/local/temp. This is just to clean things
up.
latex, xdvi and dvips work as expected. latex is faster than
any other implementation I've ever seen.
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