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From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
Subject: Re: TeX Live issues
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2020 13:02:57 +0100
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Marco van Hulten <marco@hulten.org> writes:

> Je 17 jan 08:48 skribis Marco:
>> Hi there=E2=80=94
>>
>> I am unable to use LaTeX and friends.  I get this error:
>>
>> [...]
>
> and in another profile yet another issue:
>
> ```
> $ pdflatex test
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.19 (TeX Live 2018) (preloaded=
 format=3Dpdflatex)
>  restricted \write18 enabled.
>
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
> /gnu/store/znf7mmx3vslsscn9v3ilxmgkirqwswy8-texlive-bin-20180414/share/te=
xmf-dist/scripts/texlive/fmtutil.pl: Unexpected non-option argument(s): pdf=
latex.fmt
> Try "fmtutil --help" for more information.
> I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
> ```

This sounds like a search path problem.  We are generating all the
common fmt files in texlive-latex-base.  So when using the modular LaTeX
this already works fine.

To try the modular LaTeX install at least =E2=80=9Ctexlive-base=E2=80=9D in=
to your
profile and remove the monolithic package.

--
Ricardo