[arch-general] LaTeX problems ?

[Christian Himpel]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 15:57, Jan Spakula<jan.spakula at gmx.com> wrote:
> Excerpts from Christian Himpel's message of Mo Aug 31 15:32:48 +0200 2009:
>> 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.
>
> Eh, of course it's fmtutil. Sorry.

hey, no offense :)

> However the point is that 'fmtutil-sys --all' *does* get run automatically on
> texlive upgrade, but if the user has generated the formats themselves at some
> point, these formats are preferred by texlive regardless of system changes.
> So the user need to regenerate or delete the local format files.

yeah, you're right.. i only remembered that in my case the install
script aborted (due to malformed config file or whatever) during
upgrade last time and i had to call fmtutil manually. but that was
probably an issue specific to my configuration.... never mind :)

peace,
chressie