installing latex in F19

[Andras Simon]

I hoped that installing

texlive-latex
texlive-latex-bin-bin-svn14050.0

would be enough for having a working latex. But running latex gives

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013)
 restricted \write18 enabled.

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
/usr/bin/mktexfmt: line 395:
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/texconfig/tcfmgr: No such file or
directory
fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

(Actually, there is a /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf,
belonging to
texlive-kpathsea-svn30218.0-0.1.fc19.noarch.)

Are there some post-installation steps I should do?

Andras

[Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus]

Hi:

I have troubles also with latex but in the alst LTS editio of Ubuntu. I
used to install the TeXlive full edition from repositories in Ubuntu and
once in Fedora. But now I see there are a lot of old packages so, sometimes
you can't work as well as you wish with a normal installation.

Last month I was in troubles because of that. My suggestion is to forget
the instalation you did, and instead of that erase thos package. Now you
have two choices:

1. Use this script from the CTAN:  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/
texlive/eitl  and install with this in your PC with Fedora, or if the
scripts are not for you:

2. You can download and burn a DVD or instead of, make a bootable USB
pendrive with the iso image inside and install. This is the iso image:
http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/Images/texlive2013.iso

The result is the same in both cases, and if you are like me and need a lot
of packages because you use the most of them for work, this is maybe the
best way for do it. If you have doubts or are in troubles with this, let us
know it.

Good luck:
Aradnix

[Ranjan Maitra]

Hi,

I am not sure what troubles are being referred to here, but I do not
recall having much with LaTeX on Fedora (all the way from 1 to 19).

Nowadays, I do the following after every clean install:

sudo yum install -y a2ps fetchmail alleyoop pymetar libxml2-devel
blueman gvfs-obexftp festival slock xplanet xosview aspell-en
hunspell-en xorg-x11-apps doxygen gtk+-devel gv emacs-ess emacspeak
xdvi compface-devel  R-devel libRmath-devel octave-devel lapack-devel
fftw-devel pidgin ImageMagick libtiff-devel pdftk pdfjam fpm2 ddd
valgrind openssl-perl

(Note that most of these have nothing to do with LaTeX, but are all
packages that I need or pull in dependencies that I need. These include
LaTeX.)

In the new Texlive way of packaging things, one needs to bring in
countless style files (as needed, which is really a good thing) and I
have found that so far these are what have been needed for me:

sudo yum install
texlive-{subfigure,frcursive,was,titlesec,sectsty,biblatex,bbm-macros,subfig,multirow,comment,relsize,arydshln,was,wrapfig,lastpage,endfloat,nonfloat,mathabx,mathabx-type1,sttools,yfonts}

What you need is obtained from the command:

sudo yum provides */whatever.sty

where whatever is the name of the style file you are missing or you
need.

Of course, there is a lot in the first command that will not serve your
purpose or needs so feel free to exclude whatever you have no need for.

HTH,
Ranjan

On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 19:50:24 -0500 Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus
 wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I have troubles also with latex but in the alst LTS editio of Ubuntu. I
> used to install the TeXlive full edition from repositories in Ubuntu and
> once in Fedora. But now I see there are a lot of old packages so, sometimes
> you can't work as well as you wish with a normal installation.
>
> Last month I was in troubles because of that. My suggestion is to forget
> the instalation you did, and instead of that erase thos package. Now you
> have two choices:
> Use this script from the CTAN:  http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/
>
> texlive/eitl  and install with this in your PC with Fedora, or if the
> scripts are not for you:
> You can download and burn a DVD or instead of, make a bootable USB
>
> pendrive with the iso image inside and install. This is the iso image:
> http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/Images/texlive2013.iso
>
> The result is the same in both cases, and if you are like me and need a lot
> of packages because you use the most of them for work, this is maybe the
> best way for do it. If you have doubts or are in troubles with this, let us
> know it.
>
> Good luck:
> Aradnix

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Sat, 10 Aug 2013 20:06:34 -0500
Ranjan Maitra  wrote:
> sudo yum install
> texlive-{subfigure,frcursive,was,titlesec,sectsty,biblatex,bbm-macros,subfig,multirow,comment,relsize,arydshln,was,wrapfig,lastpage,endfloat,nonfloat,mathabx,mathabx-type1,sttools,yfonts}

I remember having similar trouble with the repackaged texlive in F18 ---
everything is split into a very large number of small packages, so that
one could install exactly what one needs. That is, provided that one
actually knows what one needs. :-)

I didn't want to bother with that, so I did

yum install texlive-*

and installed basically all packages. Let me see... 4886 of them. But
since then, there was no TeX-related thing that I was missing... ;-)

HTH, :-)
Marko

[Aradenatorix Veckhom Vacelaevus]

Hi again:

Well my answer was in the way to provide a whole instalation with the last
release of the packages we can get from the CTAN. It's very usefull if you
have not problems with the storage in our hdd and if you need a lot of
packages and don't want to waste time searchings and installing later those
packages.

I use TeX for create a very diferent kind of documents. If you need onlye
few packages for a very specific documents, well, you can follow the
suggestions of Ranjan and Marko.

Regards

[Rex Dieter]

Andras Simon wrote:
> I hoped that installing
>
> texlive-latex
> texlive-latex-bin-bin-svn14050.0
>
> would be enough for having a working latex. But running latex gives
>
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
>
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
> /usr/bin/mktexfmt: line 395:
> /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/texconfig/tcfmgr: No such file or
> directory
> fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
> I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!

That's almost certainly a bug, but I would recommend if you want latex, try 
instead:

yum install texlive-collection-latex

-- rex

[Andras Simon]

Thanks to everyone, who responded! What I ended up doing is what most
of you recommended: installing more texlive packages. Since I'm
interested in having as few extra packages as possible (my favourite
netbook has an 8 GB ssd), I'll investigate  a little further, using
your suggestions as guidance.

Andras

[poma]

On 11.08.2013 16:42, Andras Simon wrote:
> Thanks to everyone, who responded! What I ended up doing is what most
> of you recommended: installing more texlive packages. Since I'm
> interested in having as few extra packages as possible (my favourite
> netbook has an 8 GB ssd), I'll investigate  a little further, using
> your suggestions as guidance.
>
> Andras

Lucky 8? :)
yum install $(repoquery --whatprovides */fmtutil.cnf)

poma

[Andras Simon]

2013/8/11, poma :
> Lucky 8? :)
> yum install $(repoquery --whatprovides */fmtutil.cnf)

Thanks, but that wouldn't have helped, because texlive-kpathsea was
already installed.

Andras

[poma]

On 11.08.2013 18:45, Andras Simon wrote:
> 2013/8/11, poma :
> > Lucky 8? :)
> > yum install $(repoquery --whatprovides */fmtutil.cnf)
>
> Thanks, but that wouldn't have helped, because texlive-kpathsea was
> already installed.
>
> Andras

Always try to subscribe to the relevant mailing list. ;)

http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/tex-live/2006-February/009777.html
http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/

poma

[Andras Simon]

2013/8/11, poma :
> Always try to subscribe to the relevant mailing list. ;)

Or the one where kind users point out relevant mails from the relevant
mailing lists :-)
> http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/tex-live/2006-February/009777.html

What helped the user there was: fmtutil-sys --missing
What I tried was: fmtutil --missing
and it threw some error (I'm not sure, but I think it was missing
fmtutil.cnf, too).

Anyway, I guess that whether a solution works depends not just on the
problem, but the context (packages installed, etc.).

Andras

[poma]

On 11.08.2013 19:49, Andras Simon wrote:
> 2013/8/11, poma :
> > Always try to subscribe to the relevant mailing list. ;)
>
> Or the one where kind users point out relevant mails from the relevant
> mailing lists :-)
> > http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/tex-live/2006-February/009777.html
>
> What helped the user there was: fmtutil-sys --missing
> What I tried was: fmtutil --missing
> and it threw some error (I'm not sure, but I think it was missing
> fmtutil.cnf, too).
>
> Anyway, I guess that whether a solution works depends not just on the
> problem, but the context (packages installed, etc.).
>
> Andras

Of course. Hold on until the band returns with a hangover to catch some
noise here. ;)

poma

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 2013-08-11 at 19:24 +0200, poma wrote:
> On 11.08.2013 18:45, Andras Simon wrote:
> > 2013/8/11, poma :
> > > Lucky 8? :)
> > > yum install $(repoquery --whatprovides */fmtutil.cnf)
> >
> > Thanks, but that wouldn't have helped, because texlive-kpathsea was
> > already installed.
> >
> > Andras
>
> Always try to subscribe to the relevant mailing list. ;)
>
> http://tug.org/mailman/htdig/tex-live/2006-February/009777.html
> http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/
>
> poma

And for Fedora packaging of TeXLive:

http://www.linux.cz/mailman/listinfo/texlive

Not sure why that's not a Fedora list--it should be, IMHO.  But there it
is.

If this is a packaging problem and not a TeXLive problem, then that is
the right list.
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