Dear Karl and Zdenek,<br><br>thank you very much for your amazingly quick reply.<br><br>I tried all of what you suggested and at the end I found that indeed Karl was right in that the user account I was using for this had an old TEXINPUTS set (probably from some time in the past when a different Latex system was installed somewhere). After cleaning that up, things started working.
<br><br>Thank you very much, again.<br><br>Johannes.<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 11, 2007 7:22 AM, Karl Berry <<a href="mailto:karl@freefriends.org">karl@freefriends.org</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d"> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt<br> I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!<br><br></div>In addition to Zdenek's good suggestions:<br><br>- Do you have any TeX-related environment variables set?
<br>- If you run mktexfmt latex.fmt from the shell, what happens?<br> The output of sh -vx mktexfmt latex.fmt might be illuminating.<br><font color="#888888"><br>karl<br></font></blockquote></div><br>