[Tex/LaTex] LaTeX compilation of simple document fails

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I am just starting to work with LaTeX for the first time, so I apologize if my question is trivial.

I recently got a first .tex document from my supervising tutor, with the request we compile it twice via pdflatex so that references will work.

After manually installing the TeX Live 2012 distribution, pdflatex fails to compile the document. From what I can understand, the problem is a some kind of missing font:

This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-1.40.10 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
entering extended mode
(./sem-aus.tex
LaTeX2e <2009/09/24>
Babel <v3.8l> and hyphenation patterns for english, usenglishmax, dumylang, nohyphenation, loaded.
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/article.cls
Document Class: article 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/inputenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/utf8.def
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/t1enc.dfu)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/ot1enc.dfu)
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/omsenc.dfu)))
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/fontenc.sty
(/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/t1enc.def)
kpathsea: Running mktextfm ecrm1000
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Could not map source abbreviation for ecrm1000.
/usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexnam: Need to update ?
mktextfm: Running mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000
This is METAFONT, Version 2.718281 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)


kpathsea: Running mktexmf ecrm1000
! I can't find file `ecrm1000'.
<*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000

Please type another input file name
! Emergency stop.
<*> ...ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000

Transcript written on mfput.log.
grep: ecrm1000.log: No such file or directory
mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ecrm1000' failed to make ecrm1000.tfm.
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

! Font T1/cmr/m/n/10=ecrm1000 at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.
<to be read again> 
               relax 
l.100 \fontencoding\encodingdefault\selectfont

? x       
No pages of output.
Transcript written on sem-aus.log.

I am pretty sure I set up TeX Live correctly; I also included the distribution in my PATH variable so that the binaries should be found. What is going wrong? I am pretty clueless and thankful for any hints.

Update 1: I installed the TeX Live distribution into /usr/share/texlive/2012/i386-linux, and I see the path /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/ appear instead – could this be a sign that the pdflatex command is looking in the wrong places? Again, since I have (yet) to learn what the files are used for, I don't know if this hunch makes any sense.

Update 2: I realized the pdflatex command invoked some TeX Live 2009 binary that was roaming around in my system. After removing those packages (hopefully without anything remaining), I will try again and see what happens.

Update 3: Through some weird bash caching mechanism, it was still invoking the old binary even though the PATH was set correctly. I removed all of the texlive packages from my package management system, and finally got it working.

Best Answer

A quick google search on ecrm1000 gives good results:

https://github.com/davetron5000/scala-style/issues/18
and
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnumed-devel/2010-07/msg00147.html

Both give the same solution: you need to install texlive-fonts-recommended using your package manager

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