[tlbuild] Problem regarding TexLive

[Ahtsham Manzoor]

Hi,


We have tried your mentioned instructions and also followed some of the previous conversations in email archives but unfortunately, still the error persists i.e.


"Running mktexfmt latex.fmt

mktexfmt: No such file or directory

I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!".


Our main goal is to set texlive source in development form so that we can make use of it in order to achieve our purpose.


Your support would be highly appreciable.



Kind Regards:

Ahtsham


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From: Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 5:19:26 AM
To: Muhammad Umair Sair
Cc: Martin Schröder; Ahtsham Manzoor; tlbuild at tug.org; Muhammad Farhan
Subject: Re: [tlbuild] Problem regarding TexLive

Hi

>   1.  Install TexLive using 'apt-get install' command.
>   2.  Build TexLive using 'Build' script (https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/Build).
>   3.  Copy the binaries built in second step to the install location of first step.

No. That will NOT WORK!

First of all: Why do you not use the Debian binaries? What did
you actually call
        apt-get install texlive
or
        apt-get install texlive-full
?
Both of them will install all binaries.

Now why the above is wrong: The BUild script in the svn expects a directory
layout similar to what the TeX Live installer creates:
        ROOT/bin/ARCH/<binaries>
        ROOT/texmf-dist/...
but the Debian layout is different:
        /usr/bin/<binaries>
        /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/...
Thus simply compiling with Build and dropping the binaries into /usr/bin
*will*not*work.


Please explain what you are trying to achieve, and we can help you.

Norbert

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