pdflatex build error: Mismatched LaTeX support files detected

[Rich Shepard]

On Tue, 20 Jun 2023, Herbert Voss wrote:

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

Herbert,

I removed the SBo TL packages so there shouldn't be conflicts. Regardless,
if there was something left behind it should be cleared out.

> what is the output of
> which -a fmtutil-sys

/usr/share/texmf/bin/fmtutil-sys

Yep. There are too many of them:
$ locate fmtutil-sys
/usr/share/texmf/bin/fmtutil-sys
/usr/share/texmf/man/man1/fmtutil-sys.1.gz
/usr/local/texlive/2023/bin/x86_64-linux/fmtutil-sys
/usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/fmtutil-sys.sh
/usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/doc/man/man1/fmtutil-sys.1
/usr/local/texlive/2023/texmf-dist/doc/man/man1/fmtutil-sys.man1.pdf

I'll remove the ones in /usr/share/texmf/; that's where the SBo TLs lived.
Actually, I can remove all of /usr/share/texmf/ because files there all date
from 2004-2016.

Thanks for making me aware of this.

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

Oh. So much to learn, so little time.

Many thanks ... again.

Best regards,

Rich