Re: latex broken?

[Matthias Drochner <M.Drochner%fz-juelich.de@localhost>]

I had a hard time too to get my latex installation to work again.

> I removed /usr/pkg/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf.  Then nothing worked,
> but pkg-add -U kpathsea-6.0.0.tar.gz fixed everyhing.  I also pruned
> some other things in /usr/pkg/etc/texmf

A key part seems to be to reinstall "texlive-tetex" first which
installs empty database files for the formats. Installing "tex-latex-bin"
afterwards which registers with these database files makes latex work.
(pdftex still fails but I prefer latex->dvips->ps2pdf anyway because
this workflow can deal with eps graphics.)

best regards
Matthias



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