[tlbuild] Problem regarding TexLive

[Muhammad Umair Sair]

> The step basically assumes you already have a working TeXLive
> installation and then insert the new binaries into it.
> Did you have that and did you do that?

IIUC, I need to do following. Please correct me if I am wrong.

  1.  Install TexLive using 'apt-get install' command.
  2.  Build TexLive using 'Build' script (https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Build/source/Build).
  3.  Copy the binaries built in second step to the install location of first step.

>> It says latex.fmt file should be automatically built. Is latex.fmt generated
>> artifact of some previous step or we need to get it from some where?

> It's generated automagically iff the system is set up correctly.
Will it be generated after the successful run of 'Build' script OR it will be present in install location? Can you tell the exact location where it'll be present?


Regards,

Umair Sair


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From: pdftex at gmail.com <pdftex at gmail.com> on behalf of Martin Schröder <martin at oneiros.de>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2017 6:44 PM
To: Muhammad Umair Sair
Cc: tlbuild at tug.org
Subject: Re: [tlbuild] Problem regarding TexLive

2017-03-29 15:28 GMT+02:00 Muhammad Umair Sair <15030002 at lums.edu.pk>:
> "Once you have a tree including both all the support files (gigabytes of
> stuff) and your new binaries, then run, for instance, latex small2e; the
> latex.fmt file should be automatically built and you should end up with a
> small2e.dvi file that you can, for example, view with xdvi or convert with
> dvips. Similarly for pdflatex and all the other engines."

The step basically assumes you already have a working TeXLive
installation and then insert the new binaries into it.
Did you have that and did you do that?

> It says latex.fmt file should be automatically built. Is latex.fmt generated
> artifact of some previous step or we need to get it from some where?

It's generated automagically iff the system is set up correctly.

Best
   Martin
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