[tex-live] Installing TL2008

[Taco Hoekwater]

Fabrice DELENTE wrote:
> Hello !
> 
>> You need to find out why kpsewhich on your machine, and apparently no
>> one else's, is getting the floating point exception.  Try running gdb
>> kpsewhich and see where it gets the fault ...
> 
> My problem is that, now that I have recompiled the binaries, kpsewhich
> doesn't crash when I start it from the command line:


Are you running a 2.4.X linux kernel maybe? The texlive linux binaries
only work for 2.6 kernels

Best wishes,
Taco