[XeTeX] xelatex.fmt missing

Arno Trautmann Arno.Trautmann at gmx.de
Thu May 8 16:46:33 CEST 2008


Rémy Oudompheng schrieb:
> François Charette writes:
>> Arno Trautmann a écrit :
>>> I’m running TeXlive on Arch Linux, just updated yesterday. LaTeX works 
>>> fine and so does XeTeX, so maybe there are problems with the 
>>> arch-package vor TeXlive? Or can anyone give me a hint, what my mistake 
>>> is here? Where could I find a hint, how to fix the problem?
>>>   
>> I am the maintainer of TeXlive packages for Arch Linux (they are in the 
>> "community" repository, which means they are not "official" packages of 
>> Arch). I am also an intensive xelatex user, as is well-known on this 
>> list, so I am quite surprised by the  issue you describe: I have never 
>> encountered it, and it has not been reported since the packages were 
>> made available last September.
> 
> Did you have an old xelatex.fmt ? I encountered this problem recently on
> a 64-bit machine, and after that I noticed that I couldn't rebuild the
> format file on a 32-bit on which I had been using xetex for months. 

No, I had formatted the computer just before installing Arch two days ago.

François, I installed texlive-core.
[pacman -S texlive-core]

Arno



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