missing backup directory

Norbert Preining norbert at preining.info
Mon Nov 8 10:03:25 CET 2021


On Mon, 08 Nov 2021, Haines Brown wrote:
>   $ fmtutil-sys --by-fmt latex
>   Unknown option: by-fmt

Ugg, typing out of memory ...

>   $ fmtutil-sys --byfmt latex
>   fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence order):
>   fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing changes:

... huuuu ... it doesn't find any fmtutil.cnf files????

Can you do
	mktexlsr /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/
and then run the above fmtutil-sys call again?
And if it works, 
	fmtutil-sys -all
too

Best

Norbert

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