[Tugindia] [texhax] TeX/LaTeX/Aleph in Ubuntuy 12.10

[P. P. Narayanaswami]

CVR's help command does not work, and still gives the same error message.
sudo fmtutil0sys --all
also does not help.  I was upgrading from Ubuntu 1210 to 1210 and
at some point of the upgrade, it complained that it cannot install tex-common
and thaitex, which I ignored. In the previous version, I was only using the
Texlive that I available from Ubuntu (and not the TUG one).
Will it help if I un-install the TeX Live Debian 21102 completely 
and install TeXlive from TUG? If som, what is the simplest procedure?
Any help will be appreciated


The Ubuntu 12.10 uses tex Libe Quoting "S. venkataraman" <svenkat at ignou.ac.in>:

> I do not know if this is relevant because CVR has a different, probably
> correct,
> take on this.
> Did you re-install texlive after upgrading or you just updated the links?
> I usually install texlive in /opt/texlive so that it doesn't get wiped out
> when
> I upgrade my linux. After installing texlive I simply recreate the links in
> tlmanager.
> I had some similar problems because I earlier used texmfvar for my local
> style files.
> Some of the format files were dumped there and they caused a similar
> problem when I
> updated my texlive.
> I shifted my local files to texlive/localtexmf, purged all the files in the
> texlive
> distribution except my local files in texlive/localtexmf/
> and reinstalled texlive.  Everything worked fine.
> 
> In a nut shell, you may have some old format files from older version of
> texlive
> and the new version of texlive
> is attempting to use it, leading to this error.
> Best,
> 
> On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Radhakrishnan CV
> <cvr at river-valley.org>wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 12:40 AM, P. P. Narayanaswami <swami at mun.ca>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Just now, I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.10 and when I run LaTeX or Aleph on
> > > files.
> > > I get the following error message:
> > >
> > > This is Aleph, Version 3.1415926-1.15-2.1-0.0-rc4 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
> > >  restricted \write18 enabled.
> > > ---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/aleph/lamed.fmt doesn't match aleph.pool
> > > (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
> > >
> > > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian)
> > >  restricted \write18 enabled.
> > > ---! /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/latex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool
> > > (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
> > > and so on .....
> > >
> >
> > Please remove the offending format file and regenerate fresh format:
> >
> >   sudo fmtutil-sys --byfmt lamed
> >
> > Best
> > --
> > Radhakrishnan
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