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 -------------------------- 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@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@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 -------------------------- Should these .fmt files be part of the latest Fedora TeXlive distribution? -- Timothy Murphy e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College Dublin -- 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 Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org