Re: kpsewhich unable to fond fmtutil.cnf

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Hello,

Frederic Baldit <frederic38300@aol.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> I have the following problem in my teTeX installation. (I apologize for 
> posting in this mailing list, but I can't find  any valuable help elsewhere 
> (and I serached in your archive, unsuccessfully)).
> My problem is: "kpsewhich fmtutil.cnf" doesn't give any answer. I have been 
> told that it SHOULD give the file's path (in a "normal" setup). The file is 
> indeed located in /var/lib/texmf/web2c. The kpsewhich command is used from a 
> makefile file in order to install a shareware latex extension; thus the 
> installation aborts due to the path of fmtutil.cnf not found. The makefile is 
> launched from my  home directory.
> Could anybody here give me any help to understand what's wrong. Thank's in 
> advance.

The same thing happens here; your installation is probably fine.
Try instead the following command:

  kpsewhich --format='web2c files' fmtutil.cnf

HTH.

-- 
Florent