pdflatex build error: Mismatched LaTeX support files detected

[Herbert Voss]

Am 19.06.23 um 22:16 schrieb Rich Shepard:

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> fmtutil: Error! Not all formats have been built successfully.
> Visit the log files in directory
>   /usr/share/texmf-var/web2c
> for details.
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Rich,

that looks like a mismatch between TeXLive from TUG 
(/usr/local/texlive/....)
and from your  linux distribution (/usr/share/tex...)

what is the output of
which -a fmtutil-sys




> This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings:
> `pdfetex -ini  -jobname=amstex -progname=amstex 
> -translate-file=cp227.tcx *amstex.ini' failed
> `pdfetex -ini  -jobname=bamstex -progname=bamstex 
> -translate-file=cp227.tcx bamstex.ini' failed
>
> What do I read to learn how to properly build amstex and bamstex?

Running fmtutil-sys is in general done by the update manager of TeXLive and
only in specific cases by the user.

Herbert




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>> In this case you get local format or system format files.
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> Different errors when run by user and root.
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> Thanks,
>
> Rich