[XeTeX] "I can't find the format file `xetex.fmt'!"

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 09.10.2005 um 11:19 schrieb Jonathan Kew:

> The result of this is that the xetex installation script, because it 
> uses fmtutil (rather than fmtutil-sys), will try to create formats, 
> etc., in ~/Library/texmf. If that folder doesn't exist at all, it will 
> get created, owned by root, and not readable by anyone else - and so 
> in normal use you'll get errors because the files can't be found.
>

If fmtutil is doing this nonsense it should be invoked as 'sudo -H -u 
<the user> fmtutil <arguments>'.

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