[arch-general] [*] Re: LaTeX problems ?

[Piyush P Kurur]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 03:57:26PM +0200, Jan Spakula 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.
> 
> 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.
> ~

	A big thank you. the fmtutil-sys --all did the trick as I had no
local packages. Somehow this is not run with the texlive update for me.

Regards

ppk