Bug#273789: Bug # 273789: tetex-base: fmtutil.cnf not found, Installation OK

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Sebastian Canagaratna <s-canagaratna@onu.edu> wrote:

>   env|egrep 'TEX|texmf'
>        As scanagar: 
>           latex=/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex
> 	  latexdoc=/usr/share/texmf/doc/latex
> 	  TEXMF=/usr/share/texmf

Do you see the problem? The tetex packages take great care to ensure
that TEXMF is what is configured in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/*. If you do not
change the defaults, it is:

 kpsewhich --expand-path='$TEXMF'
/usr/local/share/texmf:/usr/local/lib/texmf:/var/lib/texmf:/usr/share/texmf

(or with /home/$username/texmf prepended if that exists). Now you tell
it to ignore all the rest, and what you observe is the result of this.

Find out where this variable is set and remove the setting.

>    A question: should I, scanagar be a memeber of the users group? I am
>    presently not. 

This is a good idea - you are then able to write into the font cache,
which will speed up dvips and xdvi. But it has nothing to do with the
problem.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer