[tex-live] fmtutil and recreating a format file

Staszek Wawrykiewicz staw at gust.org.pl
Mon Feb 11 03:02:27 CET 2013


On Mon, 11 Feb 2013, Geoff Russell wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 9:17 AM, Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>       2013/2/9 Geoff Russell <geoffrey.russell at gmail.com>:
>       > Hi texlive,
>       > [snip ...]
>       >    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 ...

> Ah ... little things can make so much difference!

Ah, I can remember happy days, when installing tetex by Thomas Esser was
was no so such pain :-) Still chapeau bas to Thomas...

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Staszek Wawrykiewicz
staw at gust.org.pl


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