missing backup directory

[Haines Brown]

On Mon, Nov 08, 2021 at 02:11:37PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> Hi Haines,
> 
> >   $ which latex
> >   /usr/local/texlive/2021/bin/x86_64-linux/latex
> 
> That is good.
> 
> >   $ ls /home/haines/.texlive2021
> >   ls: cannot access '/home/haines/.texlive2021': No such file or directory
> 
> That is also fine.
> 
> > Interesting. I did not install the debian package. But perhaps in 
> 
> It often comes in as a dependency.
> 
> Can you send the full output of 
>	fmtutil-sys --by-fmt latex
> ? At the top there should be something like this:
> 
> $ fmtutil-sys -byfmt latex
> fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence order):
> fmtutil:   /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing changes:
> fmtutil:   /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> fmtutil [INFO]: writing formats under /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-var/web2c
> fmtutil [INFO]: --- remaking latex with pdftex
> fmtutil: running `pdftex -ini   -jobname=latex -progname=latex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *latex.ini' ...
> ....
> 
> That is the output I would expect.

  $ fmtutil-sys --by-fmt latex
  Unknown option: by-fmt

but:

  $ fmtutil-sys --byfmt latex
  fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in precedence order):
  fmtutil: fmtutil is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing changes:
  fmtutil:   /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
  fmtutil [INFO]: writing formats under /usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-var/web2c
  fmtutil [INFO]: Did not find entry for byfmt=latex skipped
  fmtutil [INFO]: total formats: 0
  fmtutil [INFO]: exiting with status 0

> And also please check the file
> 	/usr/local/texlive/2021/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> which should be there and contain several format definitions.

It does.

-- 
Haines Brown