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<p class="MsoPlainText">Hello, I just installed texlive 2015 on windows 8.1, which seemed to have installed correctly.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">The root of the tl2015 tree is in the directory g:\Experiments\sw\TeXLive\2015<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">However, when I try to run pdflatex, the format file is not found and cannot be generated.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">C:\Users\goossens>pdflatex sample2e<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015/W32TeX) (preloaded<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">format=pdflatex)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">restricted \write18 enabled.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">The command name is g:\Experiments\sw\TeXLive\2015\bin\win32\mktexfmt<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Running the command g:\Experiments\sw\TeXLive\2015\bin\win32\fmtutil.exe<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence order):<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">fmtutil: g:/experiments/sw/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing changes:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">fmtutil: c:/users/goossens/.texlive2015/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Cannot get a temporary directory after five iterations ... sorry! at g:/Experime<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">nts/sw/TeXLive/2015/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/fmtutil.pl line 303.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">g:\Experiments\sw\TeXLive\2015\bin\win32\runscript.tlu:659: command failed with exit code 2:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">perl.exe g:/Experiments/sw/TeXLive/2015/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/fmtutil.pl --byfmt pdflatex<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">When I want to run tlmgr, I also have problems, as detailed below<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText">“tlmgr update –all” as a normal user (or as administrator, as shown below) does not get write access to the texlive directory.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB"><img width="673" height="342" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D0ADCF.852E1650"></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Does somebody experience the same problems?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">Thanks for your help. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="color:black">Regards, Michel Goossens<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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