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Error "Mismatched LaTeX support files detected" [duplicate]

Edit See answer: personal issue with the path not being the correct one. When running lualatex I get the following error message: Error producing PDF. ! LaTeX3 Error: Mismatched LaTeX support files ...
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Cannot install ctex via tlmgr: "Unknown option: status-file" when running fmtutil-sys

I am trying to install ctex through tlmgr. However, it fails. (For other packages, it works fine, so I guess it is not a general error.) Here is the command I run: tlmgr update --self && tlmgr ...
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How to run luajittex?

I was curious to compare the performance of lua[hb]tex vs luajit[hb]tex. I am puzzled how to run the latter. A simple run of luajithbtex doesn't work on LaTeX files, since it's just a plain TeX engine....
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xelatex: fatal: Could not undump 20182 4-byte item(s) from /var/lib/texmf/web2c/xetex/xelatex.fmt

I have the error xelatex: fatal: Could not undump 20182 4-byte item(s) from /var/lib/texmf/web2c/xetex/xelatex.fmt. no matter how I try to escape. I'm on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. I tried: sudo fmtutil-sys -...
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'fmtutil -all' results in 'double free or coruption (out)' on RHEL 8

I added new ".sty" files to my texlive and trying to run: fmtutil-sys -all but I got bunch of errors: fmtutil [ERROR]: running `luajittex -ini -jobname=luajittex -progname=luajittex ...
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fmtutil fails to build certain formats

I'm on a relatively fresh manjaro linux install (pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.21 (TeX Live 2020/Arch Linux)) and because of reasons (see below) I want to rebuild my format files with fmtutil. I'm using ...
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no appropriate script or program found: fmtutil

I am interested in the w32tex distribution. I downloaded from here: https://ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/win32/w32tex/TLW64 then run this command: pdflatex a.tex Result: runscript.tlu:858: no ...
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Portable texlive 2019 not working: fmtutil error

I got portable texlive 2019 installed in Win10 and added the bin\win32 to system $PATH variable. Cmd command tex --version gives TeX 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2019/W32TeX) kpathsea version 6.3.1 Copyright ...
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What are formats in LaTeX and how to manage them?

For very long time I am trying to understand why we need fmtutil and also why these files are called formats? Where are they coming from (besides language packages)? For example I have checked my ...
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No PDF output file and no error message [closed]

I am very new to LaTeX, please accept my apologies! A couple of months after finishing my dissertation with LaTeX, I want to run PDFLaTeX (Texmaker) again. However, no PDF output file is being ...
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Tex Live 2015 on Windows 10: errors during update in Tex Live Manager

In a brand new installation of Tex Live, the first time I tried to update installed packages (a few weeks after installation), I got many errors similar to the following: fmtutil-sys --no-error-if-no-...
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How to get "xelatex.ini" in order to make a xelatex format?

I've retrieved xetex from TUG's 2013 TeX Collection disk for experimental use in private space, and I want to use xelatex. In trying to run xelatex on a tex file, some part of it begins to generate a ...
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Fatal format file error; stymied. fmtutil: infinite recursion

I'm using texlive / ConTeXt / Xetex, but I don't know which of those might be relevant to the problem. The summary is that when I run TeX, I get a "Fatal format file error; I'm stymied" message. ...
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How do I enable package encxvlna? [closed]

Encxvlna is a package that inserts non-breaking space into Czech documents. However, it does not seem to work with texlive-2009-11 (the version in Ubuntu Natty). There is a manual describing its usage ...
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pdflatex-fmt-doesnt-match-pdftex-pool

Using Kile 2.1 beta 4, TeXlive2010 on Ubuntu 10.04 the call of pdflatex from kile fails with the error "pdflatex-fmt-doesnt-match-pdftex-pool" as it has been reported here. However, I can compile ...
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