This is a long standing bug in Fedora dating back to at least version 9, which not only hasn't been fixed, but has gotten worse in Fedora 13. The problem is that texlive does not install Tex format files in a system-wide accessible directory. Rather it creates these format files in each users home directory within a subdirectory named .texlive2007 whenever the user invokes (pdf)latex. This is especially annoying if Latex is invoked by a server daemon, such as httpd. Then Latex attempts to create .texlive2007 subdirectory in what it considers to be the daemon's home directory, such as / or /var/www/. Of course it doesn't succeed because the daemon doesn't have write permissions to these directories. In Fedora 12 and earlier, there was a simple way to fix this: fmtutil --missing would create the format files in /var/lib/texmf and afterwords Latex would use these format files instead of creating new ones in users' home directories. In Fedora 13, fmtutil does create the format files in /var/lib/texmf, but Latex ignores them and continues to recreate them in users' home directories. To see this bug in action, create a tex file say /tmp/test.tex and run the following commands su - fmtutil --missing su -s /bin/bash apache pdflatex /tmp/test.tex You will get the following error: This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6) %&-line parsing enabled. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt fmtutil: format directory `/var/www/.texlive2007/texmf-var/web2c' does not exist. I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'! -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
