[arch-general] LaTeX problems ?

[Christian Himpel]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 15:22, Jan Spakula<jan.spakula at gmx.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Piyush P Kurur's message of Mo Aug 31 14:48:03 +0200 2009:
> It's possibly the issue that's come up on the forums:
> if you get something like:
> ---
> This is TeX, Version ....
> Fatal format file error; I'm stymied
> ---
> then you need to run 'updmap --all' (as the user you get this error with).
> Alternatively, you can delete the user's local texlive generated formats 'rm
> ~/.texlive/texmf-var/web2c/*.fmt' (then the system-wide generated formats
> will be used, and they do get regenerated automatically on upgrade).

i think it's 'fmtutil --all' instead of 'updmap --all'.
you could also run 'fmtutil-sys --all' as root to recreate the
system-wide format files.

regards,
chressie