[tex-live] No hyphenation patterns loaded for german/ngerman

[Christoph Bier]

Hi,

compiling

%-tl2007-mexp.tex-------------
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
%\usepackage[german]{babel}
\begin{document}
bla
\end{document}
%-----------------------------

with pdflatex prints:

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
 %&-line parsing enabled.
entering extended mode
(./tl2007-mexp.tex
LaTeX2e <2005/12/01>
Babel <v3.8h> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax,
dumylang, nohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2005/09/16 v1.4f Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/ngermanb.ldf
(/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/generic/babel/babel.def)

Package babel Warning: No hyphenation patterns were loaded for
(babel)                the language `ngerman'
(babel)                I will use the patterns loaded for \language=0
instead.

)) (./tl2007-mexp.aux)
[1{/home/chris/.texlive2007/texmf-var/fonts/map/pdftex/updmap/pdftex.map}]
(./tl2007-mexp.aux) )</usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/fon
ts/type1/bluesky/cm/cmr10.pfb>
Output written on tl2007-mexp.pdf (1 page, 4489 bytes).
Transcript written on tl2007-mexp.log.
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I installed TeXLive using the command line script on Ubuntu Edgy and
used "C" and "L" to deselect some packages and languages. I'm quite sure
that I didn't deselect packages related to the german language.
language.dat contains lines for german and ngerman

$ grep german `kpsewhich language.dat`
german          xu-dehypht.tex
ngerman         xu-dehyphn.tex

and both files exist (slocate database updated recently):

$ locate xu-dehyph{n,t}.tex
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xu-hyphen/xu-dehyphn.tex
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xu-hyphen/xu-dehypht.tex

I also recreated the format files with

# fmtutil-sys --all 2>&1 > fmtutil-sys.log

but nothing changed. You can view the output here:
http://zvisionwelt.de/tmpdownloads/fmtutil-sys.log

Furthermore I added dehypht.tex and dehyphn.tex to language.dat but it
did not help either. Again, both files exist:

$ locate /dehyph{n,t}.tex
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/dehyphn.tex
/usr/local/texlive/2007/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/dehypht.tex

Did I overlook something? Any ideas what's going wrong here?

Best wishes
Christoph

PS: Maybe you wonder why I didn't just try to reinstall without
deselecting packages. There's not much space left on my office PC and
TL2007 installation took more than 2 hours on this machine ...
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