Dear TexLive team,<br><br>after following the instructions on <a href="http://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html">http://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html</a> in order to install TexLive on i383-linux in /usr/local/texlive of a machine runniner Redhat Enterprise Linux release 3 (Taroon Update 7), I ran into the following issue when true to "latex" or "pdflatex" a simple .tex test file:
<br><br><br>latex Diss.tex<br>This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)<br> %&-line parsing enabled.<br>kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt<br>I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!<br><br><br>
I tried various combinations of "texconfig" and "texconfig-sys" and "fmtutil-sys", using such options as "--enable-fmt latex", "--refresh", "--missing", "--all", but I am still having the problem.
<br><br>I installed TexLive as user "root", but I tried the above both as "root" and as an ordinary user.<br><br>The options I chose during the installation were as follows:<br> - I removed several language-specific packages
<br> - I removed several of the documentation packages<br> - I enabled the "install essential binaries" option [because, from its name, it seems to be essential]<br><br>But I also tried a flat installation with no options changed (after removing the previous installation). None of this had any impact on the situation.
<br><br>Would you kindly be able to help me?<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Johannes Goller.<br><br>