"Gary Hennigan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] > Well, I can't help with how to generate it but on my potato system: > > % locate latex.fmt > /var/lib/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt > > It is not associated with a package, ie., dpkg -S latex.fmt doesn't > show a package, so it must be generated by a post install script.
I just checked the debian mailing list archive. This should've been the first place I looked, and more importantly, the first place you should have looked. This is a known problem and there's a fix in proposed-updates for it. You can see the relevant post via: http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9912/msg02663.html You can get apt to automatically look there by adding the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian dists/proposed-updates/ although you may just want to download the relevant tetex *.deb files yourself and install them via dpkg -i. Gary
