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

[Dieter Schicker]

didi at xubuntu:/tmp$ latex -output-format=dvi test.tex
...
Output written on test.dvi (1 page, 1052 bytes).
...

didi at xubuntu:/tmp$ latex -output-format=pdf test.tex 
...
Output written on test.pdf (1 page, 15324 bytes).
...

So, I can't see where the problem is? But maybe I don't get what you
mean ...

Cheers
Dieter

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.)
> 
> Thanks,
> Adam
> 
>