Erik Demaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The default installation of Cygwin tetex does not seem to have the > right permissions for Vista to be happy (with User Account Protection > turned on, as is default). Here is an example of an error message: > > $ latex filename.tex > This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) > file:line:error style messages enabled. > %&-line parsing enabled. > kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt > tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not found. > fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found. > I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'! > > It seems necessary to chmod -R u+w some subset of > /var/cache/fonts, /usr/share/texmf, /usr/lib/texmf > for latex to properly be able to build latex.fmt, > ditto for pdflatex, and kpathsea to build fonts. > Presumably this should happen in the initial installation, > or somehow the permission issue should be avoided.
I also observed this, even with UAC (User Account Control) deactivated. Windows explorer reports that some files are read-only. With Explorer's GUI, one can un-check the read-only property and tell Explorer to set this for all child folders and files, but after this they were still read-only. Very strange. Same solution helped (I did a chmod -R u+rw g+rw). -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
