Bug#65432: tetex-bin: kpsewhich cannot find file fmtutil.cnf

["Robert J. Chassell" <bob@rattlesnake.com>]

    > #62017: tetex-bin: fmtutil( and texlinks): config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found; 62 days old 

   Can you please verify that /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf is a link
   to /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf and that /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf exists.


First:

 /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf   exists:

    # ls -al /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf
    -rwxrwxrwx    1 root   root   2168 Apr 30 07:19 /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf


but:

  /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf  does not exist

    # ls -al /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
    ls: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf: No such file or directory


Interestingly, /var/lib/texmf/web2c/ does not exist either:

    # ls -l /var/lib/texmf
    total 83
    -rw-r--r--    1 root  root    22193 Jun  7  1999 helpindex.html
    -rw-r--r--    1 root  root    59775 Jun  9 12:30 ls-R


Finally, I created /var/lib/texmf/web2c/ and linked
/var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf to /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf:

    # mkdir -p /var/lib/texmf/web2c/
    # ln -s /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf

    # ls -al /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
    lrwxrwxrwx    1 root  root       22 Jun 11 13:59 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf -> /etc/texmf/fmtutil.cnf


And then tried to install tetex-bin again.  No success;


    # apt-get install  tetex-bin
    Reading Package Lists... Done
    Building Dependency Tree... Done
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
      tetex-bin 
    0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
    Need to get 0B/2656kB of archives. After unpacking 6040kB will be used.
    Selecting previously deselected package tetex-bin.
    (Reading database ... 87097 files and directories currently installed.)
    Unpacking tetex-bin (from .../tetex-bin_1.0.6-7_i386.deb) ...

     checking for old tex packages ... none.
    Setting up tetex-bin (1.0.6-7) ...
    mktexlsr: Done.
    Error: kpsewhich cannot find file fmtutil.cnf
    dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure):
     subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
    Errors were encountered while processing:
     tetex-bin
    E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)