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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">> The step basically assumes you already have a working TeXLive</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">> installation and then insert the new binaries into it.</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">> Did you have that and did you do that?</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">IIUC, I need to do following. Please correct me if I am wrong.</span></p>
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<li><font face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Install TexLive using 'apt-get install' command.</span></font></li><li><font face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Build TexLive using 'Build' script (<a href="https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/Build" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk806320" previewremoved="true">https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/Build</a>).</span></font></li><li><font face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;">Copy the binaries built in second step to the install location of first step.</span></font></li></ol>
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<div><font face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">>> It says latex.fmt file should be automatically built. Is latex.fmt generated</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">>> artifact of some previous step or we need to get it from some where?</span><br style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">> It's generated automagically iff the system is set up correctly.</span><br>
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<div><font face="Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 13.3333px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13.3333px;">Will it be generated after the successful run of 'Build' script OR it will be present in install
location? Can you tell the exact location where it'll be present?</span></span></font></div>
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<span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif">Umair Sair</span></p>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> pdftex@gmail.com <pdftex@gmail.com> on behalf of Martin Schröder <martin@oneiros.de><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, March 29, 2017 6:44 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Muhammad Umair Sair<br>
<b>Cc:</b> tlbuild@tug.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [tlbuild] Problem regarding TexLive</font>
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<div class="PlainText">2017-03-29 15:28 GMT+02:00 Muhammad Umair Sair <15030002@lums.edu.pk>:<br>
> "Once you have a tree including both all the support files (gigabytes of<br>
> stuff) and your new binaries, then run, for instance, latex small2e; the<br>
> latex.fmt file should be automatically built and you should end up with a<br>
> small2e.dvi file that you can, for example, view with xdvi or convert with<br>
> dvips. Similarly for pdflatex and all the other engines."<br>
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The step basically assumes you already have a working TeXLive<br>
installation and then insert the new binaries into it.<br>
Did you have that and did you do that?<br>
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> It says latex.fmt file should be automatically built. Is latex.fmt generated<br>
> artifact of some previous step or we need to get it from some where?<br>
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It's generated automagically iff the system is set up correctly.<br>
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Best<br>
Martin<br>
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