[arch-dev-public] News announcement for TeXlive 2013
Rémy Oudompheng
remyoudompheng at gmail.com
Thu Jul 11 02:08:48 EDT 2013
I propose the following news article for the TeXLive 2013 update:
Title: TeXLive 2013 update may require user intervention
Content:
TeXLive 2013 packages are available: users upgrading from TeXLive 2012
will likely encounter the following error message when trying to use a
TeX engine (like latex, xelatex, luatex):
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
You can recognize such a situation in the pacman output during installation:
>>> texlive: recreating all formats...
/usr/bin/fmtutil: line 395: /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr: No
such file or directory
fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
done.
To solve the situation, the simplest situation if you did not do any
changes to files in `/etc/texmf`, is to overwrite configuration files
with the `.pacnew` files installed by `pacman`. The `pacdiff` utility
may be used for that purpose.
After processing the configuration files, run the following command:
fmtutil-sys --all > /dev/null
it should not return error messages: please open a bug report if you
see any problems.
Removing TeXLive 2012 before installing TeXLive 2013 can also
workaround the issue.
Rémy.
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