[pdftex] pdftex installation

[Gabriel J.L. Beckers]

I had exactly the same problem a while ago. What to do is described in the 
pdftex user manual (section 3.7), to be found at:

	http://www.tug.org/applications/pdftex/pdftex-s.pdf

After installing the binaries, it boils down to making new format files the 
following way:

For pdftex, give the commands:
	pdftex -ini -fmt=pdftex 
, and then:
	plain
, and:
	 \dump
And for pdflatex: 
	pdftex -ini -fmt=pdflatex
, and then:
	latex.ltx

Make sure you do this in the proper directory, 
	/usr/share/texmf/web2c/
, in my case. I am using Mandrake too (good choice), so it will likely be the 
same for you.

Good luck,
Gabriel


On Friday 18 January 2002 10:24, you wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to know how should I install the newest
> version of pdftex in my tetex distibution.
> Indeed, I have the tetex distribution tetex-1.0.7-35mdk.i586.rpm
> from Mandrake, but it has pdftex 13d and I would like to
> get pdftex 14h.
> I tried to replace the binary but I have the following message
> error :
>
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417 (Web2C 7.3.3.1)
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>
> What does it mean ?
> So, how can I just upgrade pdftex in my distribution ?
> What files should I upgrade and how ?
>
> Many thanks