Marco van Hulten <ma...@hulten.org> writes:
> Je 17 jan 08:48 skribis Marco: >> Hi there— >> >> 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=pdflatex) > restricted \write18 enabled. > > kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt > /gnu/store/znf7mmx3vslsscn9v3ilxmgkirqwswy8-texlive-bin-20180414/share/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/fmtutil.pl: > Unexpected non-option argument(s): pdflatex.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 “texlive-base” into your profile and remove the monolithic package. -- Ricardo
