[tex-live] zsh path problems

Zdenek Wagner zdenek.wagner at gmail.com
Sat May 14 19:44:58 CEST 2011


2011/5/14 Pau <vim.unix at googlemail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> I installed texlive 2010 on a Fedora 14 laptop.
>
> My shell is zsh
>
> I have it on my path:
>
> deukalion(pts/23)| echo $PATH
> /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/opt/local:/opt/local/bin:/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/i386-linux
>
> But then,
>
> deukalion(pts/19)| texexec ISAEI.tex
> MTXrun | kpse fallback with progname 'context' initialized in 0.06 seconds
> TeXExec | processing document 'ISAEI.tex'
> TeXExec | no ctx file found
> TeXExec | tex processing method: context
> TeXExec | TeX run 1
> TeXExec | writing option file ISAEI.top
> TeXExec | using randomseed 70
> TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
> TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
> This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>  %&-line parsing enabled.
>  (/usr/share/texmf/web2c/natural.tcx)
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt cont-en.fmt
> I can't find the format file `cont-en.fmt'!
> TeXExec | runtime: 1.840694
>
> I also experienced problems with matplotlib when using the LaTeX
> module; it didn't find it.
>
> What am I doing wrong?
>
Apparently you have another tex distribution earlier in PATH and it is
not as rich as TeX Live. You thus take some executables from TL and
other from directories below /usr/share. Put the TL directory to the
beginning of PATH.

> thanks,
>
> P.
>



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