Re: Serious problem after tetex security update

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from Andreas Goesele:
> Andreas Goesele <Goesele@hfph.mwn.de> writes:
> 
> > After the last security update with libkpathsea3 and tetex-bin my
> > LaTeX installation doesn't work any more. When I try to compile a
> > LaTeX file I get:
> >
> > I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
> >
> > What can I do to get a working LaTeX installation back? I urgently
> > need it!
> 
> I found the solution. There is a bug in the new package:
> 
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c does not link to /var/lib/texmf/web2c (as it

Odd.  It worked for me (though I haven't tried any LaTeX commands):

(0) keeling /home/keeling/.mozilla/plugins_ ls -al /usr/share/texmf/web2c /var/lib/texmf/web2c /var/lib/texmf/web2 
ls: /var/lib/texmf/web2: No such file or directory
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Nov 25 11:06 /usr/share/texmf/web2c -> /var/lib/texmf/web2c/

/var/lib/texmf/web2c:
total 14315
drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         3072 Nov 25 11:07 ./
drwxr-xr-x    3 root     root         1024 Nov 26 06:30 ../
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         5320 Nov 24 01:55 amiga-pl.tcx
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       405356 Nov 25 11:07 amstex.fmt
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         3064 Nov 25 11:07 amstex.log
...


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