I just installed the TexLive 2012 from the Ubuntu Repository. After installation, I try compiling and it gives the following error:
Unable to find pdftex.fmt.
Please let me know what is the problem?
Now I uninstalled and purged the entire latex distro, and now it is leaving packages unconfigured.
What would be the problem and what is the solution?
It appears from various documentations I found on the net that Texlive 2012 assumes no previous installations of TexLive packages for Ubuntu. Thus it is imperative to completely remove TexLive from a system, before installing a fresh TexLive distro.
The instructions for completely removing / purging texlive are given in this page. Inspite of that my fresh installation was not working. Therefore I did the following, after completely following the instructions on the above link:
sudo apt-get purge tex-common
sudo apt-get install tex-common
and after this one can install TexLive again from the Ubuntu 13.04 distro.
