<div dir="ltr"><div>Good evening.</div>I recently installed Texlive 2018 in my pc in order to move from Miktex to Texlive. The moment that the installation was finished I tried to compile the following MWE<div><br></div><div><br><br>\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article}<br>\usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}<br>\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}<br>\usepackage{amsmath}<br>\usepackage{amsfonts}<br>\usepackage{amssymb}<br>\usepackage{graphicx}<br>\begin{document}<br>sample<br>\end{document}<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>but no matter what I try to get it working I get this error<div><br></div><div><br><br><i>Use of uninitialized value $ver in scalar chomp at C:/texlive/2018/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLWinGoo.pm line 204. Use of uninitialized value $ver in substitution (s///) at C:/texlive/2018/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLWinGoo.pm line 205. Use of uninitialized value $ver in substitution (s///) at C:/texlive/2018/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLWinGoo.pm line 205.<br><br>fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence order): fmtutil: c:/texlive/2018/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing changes: fmtutil: c:/users/spyros/.texlive2018/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf fmtutil [INFO]: writing formats under c:/users/spyros/.texlive2018/texmf-var/web2c fmtutil [INFO]: --- remaking pdflatex with pdftex<br><br>Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file or directory at c:\texlive\2018\texmf-dist\scripts\texlive\<a href="http://fmtutil.pl">fmtutil.pl</a> line 598. fmtutil [WARNING]: inifile pdflatex.ini for pdflatex/pdftex not found.<br><br>fmtutil [INFO]: Disabled formats: 6 fmtutil [INFO]: Not selected formats: 28 fmtutil [INFO]: Failed to build: 1 (pdftex/pdflatex) fmtutil [INFO]: Total formats: 35 fmtutil [INFO]: exiting with status 1<br><br>C:\texlive\2018\bin\win32\runscript.tlu:907: command failed with exit code 1: perl.exe c:\texlive\2018\texmf-dist\scripts\texlive\<a href="http://fmtutil.pl">fmtutil.pl</a> --user --byfmt pdflatex<br><br>Running the command C:\texlive\2018\bin\win32\fmtutil-user.exe<br><br>kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt The command name is C:\texlive\2018\bin\win32\mktexfmt</i><div><i><br></i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><i><br></i>I got the same error with Texlive 2019 thats why I tried to install an older version. Also I want to mention that the update isn't working and that I have MikTex installed as well so I can get my work done until Texlive is working. Any thoughts?<br><br>I read that these kind of errors are caused by Perl issues. I have a full installation of Strawberry Perl in my computer and still this does got fix the error. I have also added TexLive variable to the PATH, placed above MikTex.<br></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div>In my other computer I have the same Texlive and Texstudio installation without the need to install Perl as everything works. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Thank you.</div><div><br></div><div>Spyros</div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br> <table style="border-top:1px solid #d3d4de">
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