Bug#330078: latex points to etex, not to tex

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 25.09.05 Anton Zinoviev (anton@lml.bas.bg) wrote:

Hi,

> In order to update my pacage scalable-cyrfonts-tex for teTeX 3 I
> installed the version from experimental.  However tetex-extra is
> missing there so later I downgraded my packages to the version from
> etch and sid.  When I tried to use latex I got:
> 
> $ latex test.tex 
> This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)
> (Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
> 
> I don't use latex very often and I don't know whether this was
> caused by installing the packages from experimental.  I purged the
> packages tetex-bin, tetex-base and tetex-extra and then reinstalled
> them but the situation didn't improve.  Finally I found that the
> latex is a symlink to etex, I changed it by hands to point to tex
> and now my latex works.
> 
This is intended:

 tetex-bin  (2.0.2-17) unstable; urgency=high

   * We now use e-TeX (and pdfe-TeX) as our basic engines for
     (pdf)LaTeX.  See NEWS.Debian for details. Many thanks to Hilmar
     for this.  [frank]

 -- Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>  Mon, 2 Aug 2004 17:34:23 +0200 

What does "grep latex /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf" and
"grep latex /etc/texmf/texmf.d" tell you? Did you modify your
/etc/texmf/texmf.cnf manually?

H.
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