Re: Probably trivial: LaTeX FMT files

[Rui Pedro Chaves <rui dot chaves at clul dot ul dot pt>]

The problem was (and still is):


> > Rui Pedro Chaves schrieb am 2001-10-09 10:28:
> >
> >I wonder if anyone can help to make DVI's from LaTeX /
> >TeX files with CygWin.
> >
> >latex <file.tex>
> >
> >Error Message:
> >" This is TeX version 3(...)
> >  I can't find the format file 'latex.fmt'! "


The documentation concearning this is in
/usr/doc/Cygwin/tetex-beta-20001218.README


Where it reads:

        Here is an overview of a typical installation:

   [1] install the binaries with the cygwin setup as usual;

 . (Did that sucessfully)


   [2] install  TDS at /usr/share/texmf (see above):
     cd /usr/share
     mkdir -p texmf
     tar -zxf teTeX-src-1.0.tar.gz

 . (Did that sucessfully)



   [3] check the configuration files in /usr/share/texmf/web2c
       texmf.cnf, fmtutil.cnf and mktex.cnf
       please note that the distributed configuration files are
      (with extension) frozen to avoid overwriting.

 . (Did that sucessfully)


   [4] configure TeX:
       texconfig confall
       texconfig rehash (or mktexlsr)
       texconfig init
   
__________________________________________________________________
	texconfig confall 
	and
	texconfig init

Result in 

error: Could not find default config file for DVIPS (config.ps)
       This program will exit now.
__________________________________________________________________


On suggestion, I tried to do:

$ export TEXMFMAIN=/usr/share/texmf
and then running texconfig (the three times) again.

But it still resulted in the same error mentioned above.


What could be wrong?

Regards,
rp

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