"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.
Hoping to be helpful.
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