[ILUG] Latex problem

[Peter Flynn]

Aidan Kehoe wrote:
> 
> 
>  Ar an 4u la de mi 10, scriobh Michael Turley :
> 
>  > Anyone seen something similar or have any pointers?
> 
> ~ > locate latex.fmt
> /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt
> /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/pdflatex.fmt
> ~ >
> 
> If it can't find latex.fmt, there's something fairly basic
> wrong. 

After a manual compile, you have to make the format file with
the -i switch ("initex"), somewhat thusly (consult your README):

    tex -i plain.tex

type \dump at the prompt
when it's done, mv plain.fmt to the right directory.
Then repeat the process with

    tex -i latex.tex
and
    tex -i pdflatex.tex

Some systems actually have an initex binary for this
rather than using tex -i...but I haven't bothered to
do this manually for years since the TeX Live releases
came out and the RPMs became available for Linux.

///Peter