[Fedora TeX Live] What is new in the latest repo update

[Jindrich Novy]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 07:48:40PM +0000, José Matos wrote:
> On Monday 17 January 2011 04:01:17 Jindrich Novy wrote:
> > please find fmtutil.cnf and updmap.cfg for texlive-scheme-medium
> > attached to this email. It is needed to copy them preferably to
> > /usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/ directory. It should fix your problem
> > with pdflatex.
> > 
> > Just let me ask, do you have anything in your /usr/share/texmf
> > directory? Do you have any special settings in /etc/texmf,
> > /var/lib/texmf/ or ~/.texlive2010?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jindrich
> 
> What should be the right procedure when this failure happens for
> texlive-scheme-full?
> 
> To remove all texlive packages and then to reinstall it seems a rather crude 
> procedure to fix the problem. After all it takes 1 Gb and some time to 
> complete this task... :-(
> 
> Is it enough to uncomment the #! lines in fmtutil.cnf and updmap.cfg?

Yes, this is quick and dirty fix that allows you to avoid reinstalling
everything from scratch. Other solution would be to make backup of
these files just in case before an update.

Jindrich

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