----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> "Geoff Newson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [snip]
> >
> > When I type the command: latex mydoc.tex
> > I get the error message: I can't find default format file!
> > I remebered seeing some FAQ or something that said the answer to this
was to
> > run texconfig init and this would generate the missing format files. It
> > didn't.
> > If you can help I would appreciate it.
>
> 1) It sounds as if your installation of teTeX has gotten clobbered
> somehow --- as a first step I would suggest using rpm to verify your
> installation of teTeX:
>
> rpm -V tetex
>
> This will compare the MD5 sums of all the installed files with what
> should be there. If that discovers the problem just reinstall tetex I
> would guess (reinstalling anyway is another option :-)
>
> 2) You did not perhaps install tetex on top of ntex? According to
> "rpm -qi tetex":
>
> [snip]
> Do NOT install this package together with ntex!
> teTeX is NOT an upgrade or update for the ntex package!!
> [end quote]
>
> This could easily screw up kpathsea when it tries to search for
> things.
>
> 3) If you have tetex installed properly according to rpm -V (meaning
> also no remnants of old TeX installations) and it still does not work
> -- it could be that you have defined an environment variable that is
> leading kpathsea to search in the wrong place or that you have a
> ~/.tex file which is initialising something in the wrong way.
>
>
> If none of these ideas work, send me a copy of a the smallest file
> that fails to latex on your system and I will take a look at it.
[snip]
Thanks for the advice. rpm -V tetex just showed that the format files were
missing. In the end I just uninstalled it and the reinstalled it. Things
seem to be fine now.
Geoff Newson
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