[tex-live] TexLive utf8 problem

[Eurico de Sousa]

Thanks, Norbert. I actually noticed the path issue yesterday after
posting it. I didn't realize the client was running the /usr/bin/latex
rather than the one under /usr/local/texlive (yes, I forgot textlive in
the /usr/local path in my initial post). Thanks for taking the time to
respond.

-----Original Message-----
From: Norbert Preining [mailto:preining at logic.at] 
Sent: August 25, 2010 1:39 AM
To: Eurico de Sousa
Cc: tex-live at tug.org
Subject: Re: [tex-live] TexLive utf8 problem

On Di, 24 Aug 2010, Eurico de Sousa wrote:
> ~/testLatex:latex utf8test.tex
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5)
> (./utf8test.tex
> LaTeX2e <2001/06/01>
> Babel <v3.7h> and hyphenation patterns for american, french, german,
ngerman, n
> ohyphenation, loaded.
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/article.cls

...

> ! LaTeX Error: File `utf8.def' not found.

> I believe the make check also gave this utf8.def error. I have no idea
what to do with this as I'm a sys admin and don't know anything about
this product. The client says he needs this fixed. I install TexLive
under /usr/local/. There is a utf8.def file under
/usr/local/2009/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/utf8.def. Can you please tell
me what's wrong or how we can fix this?


Yes, but your are running latex from /usr/bin/latex which is the 
distribution TeX ... otherwise it would not search for in
/usr/share/texmf/..

As a Unix sysadmin you should know about PATH issues ... the problem is
probably that /usr/local/2009/... (BTW, why did you remove the "texlive"
part, normally it is /usr/local/texlive/2009/?!?) is where you installed
everything, so the binaries are in
	/usr/local/2009/bin/YOUR_ARCHITECTURE/
and this has to be added *BEFORE* the other latex in the PATH setting.

Best wishes

Norbert
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