On Sat, 2010-01-23 at 19:18 -0500, Neal Becker wrote:
Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> I have two F12 systems with texlive-2009 installed. On one of them,
> pdflatex works fine. On the other, I get this error:
>
> $ pdflatex simple.tex
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (Web2C 2009)
>
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
> I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
>
> On the working system, pdflatex.fmt is in
> ${HOME}/.texlive2009/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt, but on the
> failing system, that file is missing.
>
> Reinstalling and rerunning texconfig doesn't help.
>
> Any idea what's going on?
>
> TIA.
yum reinstall texlive*
Wow! Now, why did that work but yum erase texlive (which removed all
texlive* packages), yum install texlive (which resintalled them all)
didn't?
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs