Installation issue with TeX Live 2023 on Linux Mint

[Yassine Mrabet]

Hi everyone,

Thanks for your help, finally it works. The instructions are as follows :

- https://www.tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html
- Execute the following commands (thanks Norbert) :

mktexlsr
> tlmgr generate _fmtutil
> fmtutil-sys --all
> tlmgr generate _updmap
> updmap-sys


- Add the Latex 2023 fonts path :

<dir>/path/to/texlive/2023/fonts/opentype</dir>
> <dir>/path/to/texlive/2023/fonts/truetype</dir>


to

/etc/fonts/fonts.conf


Finally update with fc-cache -f, and all should work !

Once again, thank you for all your reponses
Best regards

On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 12:06 AM Paulo Ney de Souza <pauloney at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Yassine,
>
> I feel you should just remove the botched installation and do it all
> again. If you have the file for the DVD downloaded, it should be a breeze
> and a lot easier than finding what occurred and trying to fix it by trying
> individual commands.
>
> There is almost no reason for you to use TL 2021, especially the ones
> listed in this thread.
>
> Paulo Ney
>
> On Sun, Apr 16, 2023 at 3:44 PM Yassine Mrabet <yassine.mrabet at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I wanted to express my heartfelt thanks to everyone who helped me out on
>> this mailing list in debugging my fresh TeX Live 2023 installation.
>> As expressed in my first post, I had been trying to install the newest
>> version of TeX Live on another partition, as my root partition was out of
>> space. I tried numerous things to decipher the origin of the "execution
>> slowness" issue that I was experiencing, but unfortunately, I was not able
>> to resolve it. However, thanks to your suggestions, and after
>> execution of commands in the Norbert message, I was able to generate a pdf.
>> After generating all formats (taking one night), the output is so huge that
>> I decided to place it in a repository :
>> https://github.com/yassineMrabet/texlive2023_outputs
>> As a result the 'small2e.pdf' was generated after 30 minutes which is not
>> horrible :D
>>
>> Anyway, I finally decided to fallback to TeX Live 2021 minimal default
>> and get my LaTeX environment running again.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 10:27 AM Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Yassine,
>>>
>>> your report is incomplete, as Lars said.
>>>
>>> It seems that you did not properly finish the installation, formats
>>> are premade during installation, and your log shows that they are made
>>> on first run.
>>>
>>> > A simple *pdflatex -shell-escape helloWorld.tex* takes hours to compile
>>>
>>> That is even more strange. The log you send is the format build, which
>>> might take a few min on a very slow and old computer, and definitely not
>>> *hours*.
>>>
>>> Also, the log does not show the actual compilation output:
>>>
>>> > ~$ pdflatex -shell-escape sample.tex
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-1.40.25 (TeX Live 2023)
>>> (preloaded format=pdflatex)
>>> >  \write18 enabled.
>>> >
>>> > kpathsea: Running mktexfmt pdflatex.fmt
>>>
>>> Should not happen
>>>
>>> Then the format it build and saved:
>>>
>>> > mktexfmt [INFO]: log file copied to:
>>> /mypartition/texlive2023/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.log
>>> > mktexfmt [INFO]:
>>> /mypartition/texlive2023/texmf-var/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt installed.
>>> > mktexfmt [INFO]: disabled formats: 1
>>> > mktexfmt [INFO]: successfully rebuilt formats: 1
>>> > mktexfmt [INFO]: not selected formats: 53
>>> > mktexfmt [INFO]: total formats: 55
>>> > mktexfmt [INFO]: exiting with status 0
>>>
>>> That is even more strange as it seems that the fmtutil.cnf files was not
>>> properly installed.
>>>
>>> Then the tex run:
>>>
>>> > pdfTeX warning: pdflatex (file pdftex.map): cannot open font map file
>>>
>>> Not good, and should not happen either.
>>>
>>> > ] (./sample.aux) ) </mypartition/texlive2023/t
>>> > exmf-dist/fonts/pk/ljfour/public/cm/dpi600/cmsy10.pk>
>>> > kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi
>>> 600 tcrm1000
>>> >
>>> > kpathsea: Running mktexfmt mf.base
>>> > mktexfmt: mktexfmt is using the following fmtutil.cnf files (in
>>> precedence order):
>>> > mktexfmt:   /mypartition/texlive2023/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
>>> > mktexfmt: mktexfmt is using the following fmtutil.cnf file for writing
>>> changes:
>>> > mktexfmt:   /home/username/.texlive2023/texmf-config/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
>>>
>>> In fact there should be another in $TEXMFSYSCONFIG
>>>
>>> It cannot find hte basic fonts, which is strange.
>>> So it tries to builds the fonts from metafont sources.
>>> But metafont format is also not build ...
>>>
>>>
>>> Can you show the content of
>>>         /mypartition/texlive2023/texmf-dist/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
>>> ?
>>>
>>> I am pretty sure that your installation was interrupted or terminated,
>>> and you have a completely messed up installation.
>>>
>>> After having copied the content of the above file into the email, you
>>> can try
>>>         mktexlsr
>>>         tlmgr generate _fmtutil
>>>         tlmgr generate _updmap
>>>         updmap-sys
>>>         fmtutil-sys --all
>>> that hopefully generates all formats and necessary support files.
>>>
>>> Best
>>>
>>> Norbert
>>>
>>> --
>>> PREINING Norbert                              https://www.preining.info
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>>>
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