Installation issue with TeX Live 2023 on Linux Mint

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

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
>> Mercari Inc.     +     IFMGA Guide     +     TU Wien     +     TeX Live
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>>
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