Bug#267664: tetex-bin: 'latex' command will not run due to broken config files.

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Benjamin Redelings I <bredelin@ucla.edu> schrieb:

> Many thanks for the quick and detailed response!
>
> Based on your instructions I have fixed the problem.
>
> The problem was exxacerbated by my foolishly defining TEXMF and
> TEXINPUT in my .bashrc (which I forgot).
>
> After I altered /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf and remove the definitions of
> TEXMF and TEXINPUT from my .bashrc things worked fine.

Good to hear that. By the way, setting TEXINPUTS usually does no harm:

frank@alhambra:~$ echo $TEXINPUTS
:./bilder

This has the effect that the ./bilder directory is always included in
the search path (if it exists in the current directory).

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie