[OS X TeX] Re: Problem compiling with XeLaTeX

[S P Suresh]

Dear John,

Thanks for the help. I will remember to do an expert configuration  
and check whether I have everything I need, in future. It works  
perfectly now.

Cheers,
Suresh

S P Suresh
Chennai Mathematical Institute
India



On 24-Nov-06, at 6:30 AM, TeX on Mac OS X Mailing List wrote:

> Subject: Re: [OS X TeX] Problem compiling with XeLaTeX
> From: "John Rawnsley" <j.rawnsley at warwick.ac.uk>
> Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2006 09:10:54 +0000
>
>
> On 23 Nov 2006, at 05:19, S P Suresh wrote:
>
>> I just reinstalled the TeXLive i-Package after the latest update by
>> Gerben. I am running Mac OS X 10.4.8 on an iBook G$ (PowerPC). When
>> I try to compile a document with xelatex I get the error message
>> that xelatex.fmt is not found.
>
> This happened to me also.
>
> When you installed the TeXLive i-package originally on a PPC machine
> xetex was not available so the xelatex format was not built. The
> list of formats to be built seems to be saved between runs of
> i-Installer so when you installed the updated package the
> format xelatex was still not built. Run i-Installer on the package
> again in Configure Only mode, do an expert run and choose to select
> formats and build formats. When asked to select formats, scroll to
> the bottom of the list of formats and make sure the boxes for the
> xetex formats are checked. It worked for me.
>
>> Here is the exact output.
>>
>> This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592-2.2-0.995 (Web2C 7.5.5)
>> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt
>> fmtutil: format directory `/usr/local/TeXLive/texmf.local/web2c' is
>> not writable.
>> I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'!
>>
>> What is this about the directory not being writable? Have I done
>> anything stupid? Please enlighten me on this.
>
> This is because the TeXLive directories need root privileges
> to write to them. When you run i-Installer it asks for an
> administrator password so it can save the formats in this
> directory, but when you run commands as a user you don't
> have enough privileges.
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> John
> --
>   John Rawnsley * <http://go.warwick.ac.uk/jhrawnsley>
>

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