Re: Serious problem after tetex security update

[Andreas Goesele <Goesele@hfph.mwn.de>]

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
should) but to /var/lib/texmf/web2 (note the missing c). As a result
the link wasn't even created in my case. (There was no
/usr/share/texmf/web2c after the security update.)

Is it enough to report that here, or should I report it somewhere else
too?

Andreas Goesele

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