I can't find the format file xelatex.fmt
try to run sudo fmtutil-sys --all
which should create all missing format files.
If you installed TeX from the repositories of your Linux system, you could reinstall the xetex package from a repository.
Redhat/Fedora:
sudo yum reinstall texlive-xetex
Debian/Ubuntu:
sudo apt-get install --reinstall texlive-xetex
Make sure that you have the proper LaTeX packages installed in addition to the XeLaTeX ones.
In my installation of TeX Live on a Mac, I initially didn't have the latex
or latex-bin
packages installed, but I did have xetex
installed. Running xelatex
would result in the error message given by cyberscientist.
Try the following to install the LaTeX packages and generate xelatex.fmt
:
tlmgr install latex latex-bin
fmtutil ---all
If you need to do things systemwide rather than in your user directory, try
sudo tlmgr install latex latex-bin
sudo tlmgr-sys --all
For me this unintuitively resulted in generation of xelatex.fmt
. xelatex
now runs successfully.