Re: Texlive Broken

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"CPC" == Charles Philip Chan writes:

CPC> Mark Petersen writes: Hello Mark,

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For me, there was an update in the last week that generated a mail entry for root (/var/mail/root) which had instructions for dealing with the .rpmnew file that got created during the update. Though to be honest, I haven't used any of my latex installation for a couple of months.

CPC> Yes, the /etc/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf file. This is how I found out that CPC> my Texlive is broken. CPC> Anyway, I got it working again after a lot of trial and error. I had to: CPC> (1) Regenerate all the ls-R databases. CPC> (2) Run "fmtutil-sys --all" to regenerate all the TeX format CPC> files to the current version. CPC> (3) and finally run "/usr/share/texmf/texconfig/update force" Thanks for the solution as I was fighting with it also. Why on the earth it was .rpmsave which broke the whole thing rather than the usual .rpmnew is a different question