<div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;clear:both;color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19.5px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)">Hi,</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;clear:both;color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19.5px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)">I'm fairly new to LaTeX, and I'm having some trouble getting it up and running on my computer. I tried asking for some help on TeX Stack Exchange, where it was recommended I ask for help here.  Any help I can get is much appreciated. Here's my issue:</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;clear:both;color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19.5px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)"> I just installed TeX Live and TeXstudio 2.10.4 on my computer (which is running Windows 8). In TeXstudio, any time I try to compile a document, I receive the following error message:</p><pre class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1em;padding:5px;border:0px;font-size:13px;overflow:auto;width:auto;max-height:600px;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,sans-serif;color:rgb(57,51,24);word-wrap:normal;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)"><code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,sans-serif;white-space:inherit;line-height:19.5px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Could not start Build </span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(43,145,175)">&</span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> View:PdfLaTeX: 
pdflatex.exe -synctex</span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(20,86,128)">=</span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">1 -interaction</span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(20,86,128)">=</span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">nonstopmode "testFile".tex</span></code></pre><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;clear:both;color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19.5px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)">I've seen it suggested in many forums to go into in the <code style="margin:0px;padding:1px 5px;border:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">Options> Configure TeXstudio> Commands> PdfLaTeX</code>, then type the full path to <code style="margin:0px;padding:1px 5px;border:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">pdflatex.exe</code>. I've tried this, and it gives the following error message:</p><pre class="" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:1em;padding:5px;border:0px;font-size:13px;overflow:auto;width:auto;max-height:600px;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,sans-serif;color:rgb(57,51,24);word-wrap:normal;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)"><code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,sans-serif;white-space:inherit;line-height:19.5px"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Could not start Build </span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(43,145,175)">&</span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> View:PdfLaTeX: 
C:</span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(138,74,11)">\texlive\2</span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">015</span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(138,74,11)">\bin\win</span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">32</span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(138,74,11)">\pdflatex</span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">.exe -synctex</span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(20,86,128)">=</span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">1 -interaction</span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(20,86,128)">=</span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;color:rgb(0,0,0)">nonstopmode "testFile".tex</span></code></pre><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;clear:both;color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19.5px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)">I also saw it suggested to put quotes around the path to <code style="margin:0px;padding:1px 5px;border:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,'Lucida Console','Liberation Mono','DejaVu Sans Mono','Bitstream Vera Sans Mono','Courier New',monospace,sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:rgb(238,238,238)">pdflatex.exe</code>. I tried this, and received the same error message as above, but with quotes around the path. </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;clear:both;color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19.5px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)">It was suggested that I try running pdflatex from a Dos command prompt. When I do so, I receive the following message:</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;clear:both;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)"><font color="#222426" face="Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19.5px">This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015/W32TeX) (preloaded format=pdflatex)</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;clear:both;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)"><font color="#222426" face="Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19.5px"> restricted \write18 enabled.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;clear:both;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)"><font color="#222426" face="Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19.5px">Cannot get a temporary directory after five iterations ... sorry! at c:\texlive\2015\texmf-dist\scripts\texlive\<a href="http://fmtutil.pl">fmtutil.pl</a> line 334.</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;clear:both;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)"><font color="#222426" face="Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19.5px">fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence order):</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;clear:both;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)"><font color="#222426" face="Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19.5px">fmtutil:   c:/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;clear:both;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)"><font color="#222426" face="Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19.5px">fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing changes:</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;clear:both;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)"><font color="#222426" face="Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19.5px">fmtutil:   c:/users/owner/.texlive2015/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;clear:both;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)"><font color="#222426" face="Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19.5px">C:\texlive\2015\bin\win32\runscript.tlu:663: command failed with exit code 2:</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;clear:both;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)"><font color="#222426" face="Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19.5px">perl.exe c:\texlive\2015\texmf-dist\scripts\texlive\<a href="http://fmtutil.pl">fmtutil.pl</a> --byfmt pdflatex</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;clear:both;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)"><font color="#222426" face="Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19.5px">Running the command C:\texlive\2015\bin\win32\fmtutil.exe</span></font></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;clear:both;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)"><font color="#222426" face="Lucida Grande, Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Sans, Tahoma, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:19.5px">I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!</span></font></p><div><br></div><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;clear:both;color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19.5px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;clear:both;color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19.5px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)">Again, any help towards fixing this issue is much appreciated.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;clear:both;color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19.5px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)">Thank you,</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:15px;clear:both;color:rgb(34,36,38);font-family:'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Sans',Tahoma,sans-serif;line-height:19.5px;background-color:rgba(255,255,255,0.529412)">Kai Fender</p></div>