RE: Error: kpsewhich cannot find file modes.mf

[George J. Wakileh]

Thanks, Thomas.

I had ls-R, so I deleted it.  I ran texconfig, which generated a new ls-R, 
and things are fine.

I could not understand how texconfig generates the format files.  It opens 
the fmtutil.cnf files, and then ...

Anyway, I did fmtutil --all, but that only generated omega.fmt.  That is 
because texklib and texmflib which I downloaded yesterday have only 
omega.ini

Is there any package on CTAN that provides
tex.ini, latex.ini, *etex.ini, *elatex.ini, pdftex.ini, pdflatex.ini, 
*pdfetex.ini, *pdfelatex.ini, lambda.ini, amstex.ini, bplain.ini, 
bamstex.ini
needed by tetex and places them in the right directories?

I can then use fmtutil --missing or fmtutil --all to generate all format 
files (followed by texlinks) and go from there.

Your feedback is greatly appreciated.

George

-Original Message-
From:   Thomas Esser [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent:   Monday, 14 May 2001 09:50
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:Re: Error: kpsewhich cannot find file modes.mf

 Error: kpsewhich cannot find file modes.mf, although 'modes.mf' is under
 /usr/share/texmf/metafont/misc

Well, please try to run
  texhash

That should generate /usr/share/texmf/ls-R.

Thomas

PS: at least, this is the way it works with the unix-version of teTeX. I 
have no idea what the cygwin port has changed.

Error: kpsewhich cannot find file modes.mf

[George J. Wakileh]

Hello,

I am trying to run tetex under cygwin 1.3.1.  I downloaded tetex-beta, 
texklib, and texmflib, and did gunzip and tar -xf.  Running 'texconfig', I 
get

Error: kpsewhich cannot find file modes.mf, although 'modes.mf' is under 
/usr/share/texmf/metafont/misc

I also noticed that 'kpsewhich' does not find 'language.dat', but it finds 
'texmf.cnf'.  kpsewhich is under 'bin' and bin is in my path.

$ kpsewhich texmf.cnf
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf

$ kpsewhich -expand-var='$TEXMFMAIN'
/usr/share/texmf


Any idea what is going on.

Thanks very much for your help.

George