TeXlive installation failure, TeXlive update breaks the TeX installation

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Sun, 2010-04-18 at 12:49 +0200, Stefan Grosse wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> recently TeXlive was upgraded to 2010. The F12 users that installed
> TeXlive 2009 and still had the texlive repo enabled got that as an
> update.
> 
> This broke my tex system since some 2009 files seemed not to be
> updated. I thought I can solve this by completely wiping all texlive
> files and make a clean install.
> 
> During the installation I got the message:
> "  Installieren   : texlive-tex-2010-0.1.3.1415926.16044.fc13.noarch
> 106/156 sed: kann /usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf nicht
> lesen: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden"
> 
> sorry that it is in German, it says fmtutil.cnf not found. This file
> seems to be very essential for the whole LaTeX environment e.g.
> if I do fmtutil --missing I get:
> 
> "warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these
> directories: /usr/bin:/usr:/usr/share/texlive:/usr/bin/share/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/share/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/share/texlive/share/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/bin/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/share/texlive/texmf-local/web2c:/usr/bin/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texlive/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/bin/texmf/web2c:/usr/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c. /usr/bin/fmtutil:
> Zeile 377: /texconfig/tcfmgr: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found."
> 
> Because of this cnf missing I cannot run pdftex not updmap etc.
> 
> Is there something I can do until this gets fixed? (Or have I missed
> something?)

The previous update (the last TeXLive 2009 one) produced a similar
result for me (apparently a not unexpected result), but the complete
remove/reinstall fixed it.  The TeXLive 2010 update from there worked
with no problem.

Are you sure you got all the pieces when you did the remove/reinstall?

> 
> Regards 
> Stefan
> 

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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
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