pdflatex build error: Mismatched LaTeX support files detected

[Steve Litt]

Herbert Voss said on Tue, 20 Jun 2023 07:01:36 +0200


>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

Several years ago I de-installed the distro-provided TeXLive and used
only TUG provided TeXLive (with tlmgr), and I've been very happy ever
since. My experience is that I got very weird intermittent
appearing errors when both were installed.

SteveT

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