[XeTeX] Re: Can't find `xetex.fmt'

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 27.10.2005 um 13:13 schrieb Laurie Field:

> fmtutil-sys apparently doesn't exist on my setup

No, this cannot be. Except you use an elder TeX ...

If this would be true with a new TeX, then i-Installer would not have 
finished the TeX installation. A significant part of this installation 
procedure is the generation of all needed or chosen formats.

Invoke i-Installer again, go to the Configure Only section and choose 
(check) particularly the CLI (Command Line Interface) option as an 
addition to what's already chosen. This will make fmtutil-sys and 
others available in Terminal. After this Configure Only installation 
you should log-off and log-on again that Terminal understands how to 
find the TeX binaries and utilities.

BTW, you should invoke fmtutil-sys with sudo or sudo -H! Without sudo 
or sudo -H in front fmtutil-sys won't be able to create anything in the 
teTeX tree. If your TeX installation is a bit old and you only have the 
old fmtutil utility, then an invocation like 'sudo fmtutil ...' would 
be right.

The message that /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/fmtutil.cnf 
already defines
XeTeX formats is OK, it's just the truth, meaning too, that for XeTeX 
installation /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.local/web2c/fmtutil.cnf does 
not need to get modified.


After you have installed a package you can press Report and, since no 
report appears, press re-create. This report can be printed as PDF to a 
file for later reading or looking up a fault.


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   Pete

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