TeXlive 2012 problem

[Timothy Murphy]

Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> I think the solution is to remove texlive-preview and install
> tex-preview from the Fedora 17 repo.  The texlive repo no longer lists
> texlive-preview or tex-preview as a package.

Thanks for your response.
That did the trick.

Unfortunately when I try to LaTeX (or pdfLaTeX) a file I get the error
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This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012)
 restricted \write18 enabled.

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
[tim at blanche Problems]$ pdflatex Problems-08
This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012)
 restricted \write18 enabled.

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!

[tim at blanche Problems]$ sudo yum install tex-latex
Loaded plugins: langpacks, presto, refresh-packagekit
Package 1:tex-latex-svn23639-1.noarch already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
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Should these .fmt files be part of the latest Fedora TeXlive distribution?

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