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Re: Latex in Cygwin lost?
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Cc: xzou at uwo dot ca, cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 11:15:42 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Latex in Cygwin lost?
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On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, xzou wrote:
> Dear Cygwin folks,
>
> I installed Cygwin/X in Feb, 2005, and it has been working very well.
> This passed weekend I wad trying add the "xfig", and after downloading
> and reinstalling, yes I have xfig now. However, the "latex" and "tex"
> do not work any more, but "amstex" still works.
> When I run latex, I got the following message:
>
> $ latex meta.tex
> This is pdfeTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4)
> file:line:error style messages enabled.
> %&-line parsing enabled.
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
> tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not found.
> fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
> I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> and when I run "tex" I got the following:
>
> $ tex ams-00.tex
> This is TeXk, Version 3.141592 (Web2C 7.5.4)
> file:line:error style messages enabled.
> %&-line parsing enabled.
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt tex.fmt
> tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not found.
> fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
> I can't find the format file `tex.fmt'!
> ------------------------
>
> I am a mathematician, and use latex a lot. Does anybody have any
> suggestion/idea in solving this problem?
>
> Many thanks
>
> Xingfu Zou, University of Western Ontario (Canada)
What does "cygcheck -cv tetex tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-tiny tetex-extra"
show?
Igor
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