On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:56:49AM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote: > severity 462610 normal > title 462610 texlive-xetex misses dep/recom on texlive-latex-base > tags 462610 + unreproducible > thanks > > Hi Khaled, > > On Sa, 26 Jan 2008, Khaled Hosny wrote: > > Severity: grave > > Don't overdue it, from the definition: > makes the package in question unusable or mostly so, or causes > data loss, or introduces a security hole allowing access to the > accounts of users who use the package. > > > Justification: renders package unusable > > Wrong, you still can use plain xetex and build your own format. So it is > definitely working.
You are right, I was concentrating on the lost xelatex functionality. > > > kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt > > I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'! > > That looks very suspicious. After the installation of texlive-xetex the > latex format should have been created .. > > I guess you don't have texlive-latex-base installed. > > There seems to be a depends/recommends missing in texlive-xetex. Please > install texlive-latex-base and call dpkg-reconfigure texlive-xetex, that > should do it. This solved it, thanks for the help. I hope the dependency issue will be fixed, as this seem to affect many people (google). > > Best wishes > > Norbert -- Khaled Hosny
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