Sorry about this, but I forgot to use a group reply. The answer appended below was sent to David Kastrup. Regards, Marc van Dongen ******************************************************************************** David Kastrup ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [latex.fmt and pdflatex.fmt can't be found] : Is there anything I missed in the installation? : : Yes. The installation and bug reporting instructions. First, I am very sorry. : latex.fmt does not seem to sit in a directory where formats are Which is why I enclosed output of a *find* of the teTeX dir. : searched for. Second, you probably have not run texconfig and : generated all respective formats/bases (gets done automagically after : configuring default mf modes and hyphenations). I used the install.sh script provided with the binaries. I then did a texconfig conf. Just like the installation document requires. : Third, you have failed to provide the output of : texconfig confall : for helping us to diagnose the problem in case my above guesses (and : without any more useful information, guesses they will remain) turn : out to be wrong. Here it is. $ texconfig conf ==================== binaries found by searching $PATH =================== tex: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/sparc-solaris/tex etex: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/sparc-solaris/etex pdftex: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/sparc-solaris/pdftex omega: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/sparc-solaris/omega mf: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/sparc-solaris/mf mpost: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/sparc-solaris/mpost dialog: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/sparc-solaris/dialog dvips: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/sparc-solaris/dvips xdvi: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/sparc-solaris/xdvi kpsewhich: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/sparc-solaris/kpsewhich mktexpk: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/sparc-solaris/mktexpk mktextfm: /usr/local/teTeX/bin/sparc-solaris/mktextfm =========================== Kpathsea variables =========================== TEXMF=!!/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf =============== environment variables (ok if no output here) ============= Regards, Marc van Dongen
