So I decided to reinstall teTeX without doing any configuration:
# rm -rf /usr/local/teTeX/
# mkdir -p /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf
# gzip -dc teTeX-texmf-1.0.tar.gz | (umask 0; cd /usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf; tar xf
-)
# gzip -dc teTeX-src-1.0.tar.gz | tar xvf -
# cd teTeX-1.0
# sh -c './configure >configure.log 2>&1' &
# sh -c 'make world >world.log 2>&1' &
Then I set
export PATH=/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu:$PATH
and get
latex try
This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.3.1)
I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
OK, so I try to run texconfig, but I get
# texconfig
Error: file texmf.cnf not found in
``/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc/share/texmf/web2c''.
TEXMFMAIN ``/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc/share/texmf'' seems to have
the wrong value from a texmf.cnf file.
This is weird since the binaries are installed in
/usr/local/teTeX/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu
so I do not see where `i686-pc' is coming from.
Indeed,
# ls /usr/local/teTeX/bin/
i686-pc-linux-gnu/
Since somebody asked:
# rpm -q glibc
glibc-2.2-5
I'll be glad to debug this---if you give me some pointers.
Mate
