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Hi all,<br><br>I'm trying to get texlive 2007 working on Ubuntu 9.10 (really old system, I know,<br>but for some reasons, I'm stuck to it and cannot upgrade).<br><br>I've installed the following deb files (for the lack of network connectivity of said<br>box) via dpkg -i:<br><br>tex-common_1.20_all.deb<br>texinfo_4.13a.dfsg.1-4ubuntu1_i386.deb<br>texlive-base_2007.dfsg.2-4ubuntu1_all.deb<br>texlive-base-bin_2007.dfsg.2-7ubuntu1.1_i386.deb<br>texlive-common_2007.dfsg.2-4ubuntu1_all.deb<br>texlive-doc-base_2007.dfsg.2-2_all.deb<br><br>When running etex (or tex) with the following command<br><br>$ etex txiversion.tex<br><br>I get the result<br><br>This is pdfTeXk, Version ....<br>kpathsea: Running mktexfmt tex.fmt<br>I can't find the format file `etex.fmt'!<br><br>And it quits. The input file txiversion.tex just contains one line<br>"\input texinfo.tex @bye" and the texinfo.tex file is present.<br><br>Googling around, some forums suggets to run mktexfmt to<br>re-create missing format files. But running<br><br>$ mktexfmt --all<br><br>or<br><br>$ mktexfmt --missing etex.fmt<br><br>Does not produce any format file. However, the commands complete with<br>exit code 0.<br><br>Am I missing out something? Why are the format files not created?<br><br>Thanks in advance.<br><br>- Winston<br><br> </div></body>
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