[tex-live] TeX/LaTeX/Aleph in Ubuntu 12.10

[Zdenek Wagner]

2012/10/19 P. P. Narayanaswami <swami at mun.ca>:
> Just now, I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 and when I run LaTeX or Aleph on files.
> I get the following error message:
>
> This is Aleph, Version 3.1415926-1.15-2.1-0.0-rc4 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> ---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/aleph/lamed.fmt doesn't match aleph.pool
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
>
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
> ---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
> and so on .....
>
> What is the problem and how to resolve it? Everythibng was woprking perfectly
> well in Ubuntu 12.04
>
It seems that the binaries were replaced with the new versions but the
formats were not regenerated. You can discover it by inspectiong the
modification date of the *.fmt files. I do not know the infrastructure
of the Ubuntu TeX distribution but there should be some documentation
how to regenerate the formats if this is the reason.
>
>
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