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Just an additional remark,

unset TEXMFVAR

is a slightly better solution, Georg

The only problem was that TEXMFVAR was set to

TEXMFVAR=/usr/local.hg/app/teTeX/current/texmf-var

simply doing

export TEXMFVAR=

solves the problem...

nevertheless, thank you very much for your efforts, Georg

It's Fedora 17 (BeefyMiracle) 64-bit
Kernel Linux 3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64

I cannot install it as a root, since I don't have the permission, its an office machine!

Is that the only possibility?

thanks for your fast request, but since I have no root access that does not help to much, I should have mentioned that I tried this before

$ fmtutil --byfmt=latex.fmt

as well as

$ fmtutil --all
fmtutil: format directory `/usr/local.hg/app/teTeX/current/texmf-var/web2c' is not writable.

give the ...

Hi,

I installed TeX Live 2013 (30. June) via install-tl -gui as a user on a machine without root access, extended PATH appropriate and for this minimal example.

\documentclass{article}

\begin{document}
Hallo
\end{document}

I get the following error message.

$ latex test.tex
This is pdfTeX ...