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

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

Robert J. Chassell writes:
 >     If you even not have texhash this means that your tetex-bin
 >     installtion is completely broken. Please purge and reinstall.
 > 
 > OK, done ... and it does not help.  `kpsewhich' still cannot find
 > `fmtutil.cnf':
 > 

Ok. Some consitency checks:

Do you have /usr/lib/texmf? You should only have it as a link to
/usr/share/texmf. It is obsolete.

/usr/share/texmf/web2c should be a link to
/var/lib/texmf/web2c. tetex-base should do you this link. Did you try
to reinstall this one too?

/usr/share/texmf/ls-R should be a link to /var/lib/texmf/ls-R. A grep
through this file should find you fmtutil.cnf. kpsewhich searches
through /usr/share/texmf/ls-R to find the location of files.

And last but not least, /var/lib/texmf/ls-R and /var/spool/texmf/ls-R
should be plane files.

Christoph