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I am a newbie to TeX. I want to use XeLaTeX for my CV, but when I try to compile with Texmaker. a get an error saying: This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (TeX Live 2010) restricted \write18 enabled.

kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt
I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'!

What is the problem here? How can I fix it?

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Reinstalling via sudo apt-get install --reinstall texlive-xetex did the job for me. – firasa Dec 26 '12 at 16:14

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try to run sudo fmtutil-sys --all which should create all missing format files.

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It still replys with:This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (TeX Live 2010) restricted \write18 enabled. kpathsea: Running mktexfmt xelatex.fmt I can't find the format file `xelatex.fmt'! – cyberscientist Jul 16 '11 at 7:58
What does the summary output of the above command say? – Herbert Jul 16 '11 at 8:02
there output ofcommand was very long, I dont know how to retrive and display it here. – cyberscientist Jul 16 '11 at 23:16
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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

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Thanks for your reply. I did a reinstall of texlive-xetex.But I still have the same error. – cyberscientist Jul 16 '11 at 23:15
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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.

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The last command should be sudo fmtutil-sys --all, shouldn't it? – egreg Oct 12 '12 at 22:52

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