I'm not sure, but perhaps run fmtutil? Just a shot in the dark.
Marshal
>>>>> "Brendan" == Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm having the familiar *.fmt files missing when trying to use
> tex. The mail archives suggest that the solution is to install
> tex from the proposed-updates directories but that solution
> doesn't work (at least not any more).
> The URL
>
ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/debian/dists/slink-proposed-updates/.4/linux/debian/dists/slink-proposed-updates
> does not exist anymore.
> ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux is now at ftp.freesoftware.com but the
> directory path does not exist. I have setup my
> /etc/apt/sources.list file to
> I have browsed
> ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/linux/debian/dists/slink-proposed-updates/
> and ftp://ftp.debian.org/dists/slink-proposed-updates/ and there
> is no mention of any tex packages. I point apt at these sites
> any it says that my tex distribution is the newest available
> when I try to install.
> What is the current solution to the tex.fmt, latex.fmt,
> jadetex.fmt problem ? I'm getting a little frustrated now. I
> don't want to go back to RedHat.
> I hope someone can help. Thanks, Brendan Simon.
> ------------------ ORIGINAL MESSAGE -------------------
> Go to an ftp archive and go into the proposed-updates for
> slink. There was some sort of y2k problem with tex where the
> make format or something to that effect failed. Anyway, the
> updated package will work. In fact here is the url for the cdrom
> debian archive.
>
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/debian/dists/slink-proposed-updates/.4/linux/debian/dists/slink-proposed-updates
> brian
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 12:56:30PM -0800, G. Crimp wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been using TeX at work for a few weeks now. Last week I
> got a
>> new computer and installed 2.1 on it (same as was on the old
>> box). As
> far
>> as I can tell, I have all the appropriate tetex packages in
>> place.
> TeX no
>> longer works, though. When I try to run tex on a .tex file, I
>> get the
>> following error:
>>
>> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2) I can't find the
>> format file `tex.fmt'!
>>
>> The tetex docs say to run the command `texconfig init' in such
>> a
> case. When
>> I run it I get tons of output, including the following
>> excerpts:
>>
>> [...] Beginning to dump on file tex.fmt (format=tex
>> 1999.12.30) [...] No pages of output. Transcript written on
>> tex.log [...]
>>
>> The command continues to run producing similar output
>> concerning latex
> and
>> metafont. However, the file tex.fmt is nowhere to be found on
>> my file
>> system. Maybe the line "No pages of output." explains that. I
> thought I
>> could get some answers from the transcript in tex.log, but that
>> file
> appears
>> not to have been written anywhere either.
>>
>> Anybody know what I have done wrong on this new computer, or
>> more positively, how I can back to writing documentation with
>> TeX ?
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