Hi Wouter, sorry for not answering earlier (and sorry for the last mail with a fullquote, but otherwise empty, I hit the wrong keys).
Wouter Bolsterlee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: texlive-xetex > Version: 2007-5 > > Running xetex or xelatex on any input file results in an error like this: > > $ xetex somefile.tex > This is XeTeXk, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.996 (Web2C 7.5.6) > %&-line parsing enabled. > kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xetex.fmt > I can't find the format file `xetex.fmt'! > > The installation seems succesful though: [...] > Am I doing something wrong? Not really, except that maybe you did something wrong in the past, some misconfiguration. Since package configuration succeeds, the format is probably there, please check that: ls /var/lib/texmf/web2c/xetex/xetex.fmt Now, why isn't it found? What is the output of kpsewhich --progname=xetex xetex.fmt kpsewhich --progname=xetex --show-path fmt grep xetex /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf /etc/texmf/texmf.d/* Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)