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Olnex

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Registered: 2008-04-10

Posts: 89

Install texlive with failed messages

I tried to install texlive, however when installing I got the following messages:

( 3/18) installing texlive-core                     [#####################] 100%
updating the filename database... done
creating the fontmap files with updmap... done
Error: `pdftex -ini  -jobname=etex -progname=etex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *etex.ini' failed
Error: `pdftex -ini  -jobname=pdfetex -progname=pdfetex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' failed
Error: `pdftex -ini  -jobname=pdftex -progname=pdftex -translate-file=cp227.tcx *pdfetex.ini' failed
Error: `xetex -ini  -jobname=xetex -progname=xetex -etex xetex.ini' failed

And it occurs more than once.

Do I just ignore it or have to do something with it?

Olnex

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Registered: 2008-04-10

Posts: 89

Re: Install texlive with failed messages

I found the solution, because it invokes pdftex without first installing it(maybe pdftex should be installed earlier than that), so I just install texlive-most again and the problem disappeared.

lamberss

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Registered: 2009-04-11

Posts: 10

Re: Install texlive with failed messages

It will save some time if you install texlive-core as a dependency first.

pacman -Sy --asdeps texlive-core
pacman -S texlive-most

This avoids updating the fontmaps twice for each package, which takes a bit of time on my system.