Re: debian-user-digest Digest V100 #424

[Jim McCloskey <mcclosk@ling.ucsc.edu>]

|> nivaldo@abacaxi: ~/Mest/Percep$ latex UserGuide.tex
|> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.2)
|> I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!   

I assume you installed from a CD? There is an obscure date-related bug
in the TeTeX distribution, which means that initex cannot run to
produce the necessary *.fmt files at installation time. This has the
curious effect that installations done from a CD before a certain date
work well, while installations done from the same CD at a later date
don't work at all.

If you install instead from a debian FTP archive (stable or frozen),
your problem should go away, 

Jim