On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 15:22, Jan Spakula<jan.spakula@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Excerpts from Piyush P Kurur's message of Mo Aug 31 14:48:03 +0200 2009: > It's possibly the issue that's come up on the forums: > if you get something like: > --- > This is TeX, Version .... > Fatal format file error; I'm stymied > --- > then you need to run 'updmap --all' (as the user you get this error with). > Alternatively, you can delete the user's local texlive generated formats 'rm > ~/.texlive/texmf-var/web2c/*.fmt' (then the system-wide generated formats > will be used, and they do get regenerated automatically on upgrade). i think it's 'fmtutil --all' instead of 'updmap --all'. you could also run 'fmtutil-sys --all' as root to recreate the system-wide format files. regards, chressie
