On 2020/06/10 14:36, Charlie Burnett wrote: > Howdy, > > I'm having a couple issues with TexLive. With trying to use the package > version, I get the following error: > > "warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these > directories: > /usr/local/bin:/usr/local/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/local/bin/share/texmf-dist/web2c:/usr/local/bin/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/local/bin/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/local/bin/texmf-dist/web2c:/usr/local/bin/texmf/web2c:/usr/local:/usr/local/share/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/local/share/texmf-dist/web2c:/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/local/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/local/texmf-dist/web2c:/usr/local/texmf/web2c://texmf-local/web2c:/usr:/usr/share/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/share/texmf-dist/web2c:/usr/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/texmf-dist/web2c:/usr/texmf/web2c"
Which packages do you have installed? > I'm unable to use latex in any capacity with it- after the above warning, I > get the following with pdflatex for example: > > "kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt > mktexfmt: No such file or directory > I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!" > > I tried to see if building it directly from ports would help, however I got > a different error: > > "Error: /home/agamemnon/Projects/ports/ does not resolve (broken symlink ?) > Use of uninitialized value $real_d in quotemeta at > /usr/ports/infrastructure/bin/port-getpkgpath-helper line 36. > Error: /home/agamemnon/Projects/ports/ does not resolve (broken symlink ?) > Use of uninitialized value $real_d in quotemeta at > /usr/ports/infrastructure/bin/port-getpkgpath-helper line 36." > > Any ideas? > Something about your ports setup is wrong. Unfortunately disklabel auto defaults lead people to trying to put the ports tree in weird places, it's best if it is on its own partition in /usr/ports. If you place it elsewhere you need to setup PORTSDIR and maybe other things, see ports(7).
