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

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

Robert J. Chassell writes:
 > 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
 > 

/var/lib/texmf/web2c should be full of files from tetex-bin:

> ls /var/lib/texmf/web2c/
amiga-pl.tcx  etex.log     latex.log     mktexupd        pdflatex.fmt
amstex.fmt    etex.pool    maz-pl.tcx    mp.pool         pdflatex.log
amstex.log    fmtutil.cnf  mf.base       mpost.log       pdftex.fmt
cp1250cs.tcx  il1-t1.tcx   mf.log        mpost.mem       pdftex.log
cp1250pl.tcx  il2-cs.tcx   mf.pool       omega.fmt       pdftex.pool
cp1250t1.tcx  il2-pl.tcx   mfw.base      omega.log       plain.base
cp852-cs.tcx  il2-t1.tcx   mktex.cnf     omega.pool      plain.fmt
cp852-pl.tcx  kam-cs.tcx   mktex.opt     pdfelatex.efmt  plain.mem
cp8bit.tcx    kam-t1.tcx   mktexdir      pdfelatex.log   tex.fmt
elatex.efmt   lambda.fmt   mktexdir.opt  pdfetex.efmt    tex.log
elatex.log    lambda.log   mktexnam      pdfetex.log     tex.pool
etex.efmt     latex.fmt    mktexnam.opt  pdfetex.pool    texmf.cnf

Please try to reinstall tetex-bin. I suppose for some reason (disk
full?) dpkg could not write these files during installation.

Christoph