I have this file:

/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/utf8.def

on a ubuntu 12.04 system.  But I don't know if it would be enough to
copy that (from ubuntu's texlive package) onto the right place in your
system.

John

On 22 July 2012 16:13, Dr. David Kirkby <[email protected]> wrote:
> I tried to build sage-5.2.rc0 on an IBM x3650 server. This is fitted with a
> pair of quad core Intel Xeon X5460 (3.16 GHz) and has 48 GB RAM. It has
> CentOS 4.7, which is a rather old Linux distribution, which is essentially
> Redhat 4.7.
>
> Sage builds fine, but when producing the documentation, I get 24761 errors
> like:
>
> "! LaTeX Error: File `utf8.def' not found"
>
> The documentation builds, though it seems slow to do it. But some pages look
> like this:
>
> http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/kirkby/documentation-problem-on-Linux-displayed-on-Solaris-box.png
>
> However, when the doc tests are run, everything passes, which seems wrong to
> me, if there were problems building the documentation. Can we have a doctest
> which checks for this sort of error? Can the documentation check the
> documentation????????
>
> It seemed to takes ages to build the documentation, though the long tests,
> which were run in parallel, were completed quite quickly.
>
>
> sage -t  --long -force_lib devel/sage/sage/groups/matrix_gps/matrix_group.py
>          [106.8 s]
> sage -t  --long -force_lib
> devel/sage/sage/modular/arithgroup/arithgroup_perm.py
>          [28.0 s]
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> All tests passed!
> Total time for all tests: 909.0 seconds
>
> Here is one of the errors, but as I say, there are more than 24,000 of them.
> There does not appear to be any file called "utf8.def" on my system.
>
>
>
> preparing documents... done
> writing output... [  0%] algebras
> writing output... [  0%] arithgroup
> WARNING: display latex u'{\\rm SL}_2(\\ZZ)': latex exited with error:
> [stderr]
>
> [stdout]
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
> (./math.tex
> LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
> Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
> ngerman, n
> ohyphenation, loaded.
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls
> Document Class: article 2001/04/21 v1.4e Standard LaTeX document class
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/size12.clo))
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
>
> ! LaTeX Error: File `utf8.def' not found.
>
> Type X to quit or <RETURN> to proceed,
> or enter new name. (Default extension: def)
>
> Enter file name:
> ! Emergency stop.
> <read *>
>
> l.118 \endinput
>                ^^M
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on math.log.
>
> WARNING: display latex u'{\\rm SL}_2(\\ZZ)': latex exited with error:
> [stderr]
>
> [stdout]
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
> (./math.tex
>
> There are literally *thousands* of these
>
>
> [drkirkby@blackcap sage-5.2.rc0]$
>
>
> Dave
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