[tex-live] fmtutil and recreating a format file

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Sun Feb 10 23:47:17 CET 2013


2013/2/9 Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell at gmail.com>:
> Hi texlive,
>
> I'm trying to recreate my pdflatex format with more main_memory.pdflatex =
> 5000000
>
> 1. I added to the file /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf.cnf
>
>    main_memory.pdflatex = 5000000
>
> 2. Ran the following to rebuild the format
>
>    sudo fmtutil --byfmt pdflatex.fmt
>
sudo fmtutil modifies the root's pdflatex.fmt. Be sure that root has
the same PATH setting as you and use sudo fmtutil-sys ...

> 3.  nothing seemed to happen to the format pdflatex.fmt in
> /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt
>
> I'm running on Ubuntu ... a 2010 distro.
>
> Cheers,
> Geoff Russell



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