can't find the format file `latex.fmt' on Rawhide

[Christoph Junghans]

Hi,

Using latex in Docker on Rawhide gives an "I can't find the format
file `latex.fmt'!" error.
I have seen this before but I don't recall how to fix it.

Mini reproducer using the following Dockerfile:
FROM registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:rawhide
RUN dnf -y update
RUN dnf -y install texlive
RUN printf '\\documentclass{article}\n\\begin{document}\ntest\n\\end{document}'
>  test.tex 
RUN latex test.tex

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Christoph

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Christoph Junghans
Web: http://www.compphys.de

[Christoph Junghans]

On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 8:19 AM Christoph Junghans <junghans(a)votca.org&gt; wrote:
>  Hi,
>
>  Using latex in Docker on Rawhide gives an "I can't find the format
>  file `latex.fmt'!" error.
>  I have seen this before but I don't recall how to fix it.
>
>  Mini reproducer using the following Dockerfile:
>  FROM registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:rawhide
>  RUN dnf -y update
>  RUN dnf -y install texlive
>  RUN printf '\\documentclass{article}\n\\begin{document}\ntest\n\\end{document}'
>  > test.tex
>  RUN latex test.tex
>
>  Any ideas? 
I did some follow up research - summary here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1897839
In short, same texlive version works fine in a F33 container, so it
must be something else in Rawhide that triggers this.

>  Thanks,
>
>  Christoph
>
>  --
>  Christoph Junghans
>  Web: http://www.compphys.de 


-- 
Christoph Junghans
Web: http://www.compphys.de

[Fabio Valentini]

On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 11:25 PM Christoph Junghans <junghans(a)votca.org&gt; wrote:
>  On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 8:19 AM Christoph Junghans <junghans(a)votca.org&gt; wrote:
>  >
>  > Hi,
>  >
>  > Using latex in Docker on Rawhide gives an "I can't find the format
>  > file `latex.fmt'!" error.
>  > I have seen this before but I don't recall how to fix it.
>  >
>  > Mini reproducer using the following Dockerfile:
>  > FROM registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:rawhide
>  > RUN dnf -y update
>  > RUN dnf -y install texlive
>  > RUN printf
> '\\documentclass{article}\n\\begin{document}\ntest\n\\end{document}'
>  > > test.tex
>  > RUN latex test.tex
>  >
>  > Any ideas?
>  I did some follow up research - summary here:
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1897839
>  In short, same texlive version works fine in a F33 container, so it
>  must be something else in Rawhide that triggers this.
>
>  >
>  > Thanks,
>  >
>  > Christoph 
I found that sometimes, the order in which texlive packages are
installed makes them either work - or not. I suspect some scriptlet or
RPM file trigger is not being executed as needed in some cases. If you
are hitting the same issue, then "dnf reinstall"ing all texlive*
packages should fix the issue (I think).

Fabio