I don't want the latex command to produce PDFs.

[Tony Arnold]

Adam,

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 13:34 +0100, Adam Funk wrote:
> I've recently switched from Debian to Ubuntu and noticed that the
> latex command produces .pdf rather than .dvi output because of the
> symlink [1]
> 
>   [1] /usr/bin/latex -> pdfetex
> 
> whereas on my old Debian box [2] is the case.
> 
>   [2] /usr/bin/latex -> etex
> 
> I'd like to fix this so the latex command works "normally", but I
> can't just change the latex symlink to point to etex because of [3] on
> Ubuntu (on Debian etex is a binary).
> 
>   [3] /usr/bin/etex -> pdfetex
> 
> How should restore the traditional behaviour on an Ubuntu system?  (If
> I want PDF output, I'll use the pdflatex command.)

Have a look at  the texlinks command and fmtutil.cnf. There are man
pages for both. I think you should be able to define Latex to do what
you want by modifying the fmtutil.cnf file and re-running texlinks. I've
not tried it, so you may need to play around a bit with this.

Regards,
Tony.
-- 
Tony Arnold <tony.arnold at manchester.ac.uk>
University of Manchester