Re: update-updmap doesn't run

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Frank Küster wrote:
> > I ran into trouble with update-updmap.  After adding a file to
> > /etc/texmf/updmap.d/ I expected update-updmap to create a new
> > file updmap.conf for later use by updmap.
> >
> > However, with a virgin unstable system this didn`t work with the following
> > comment:
> >
> > openeye:/etc/texmf/dvips# update-updmap 
> > Didn't run update-updmap as you requested!
> > openeye:/etc/texmf/dvips# 
> >
> > The problem is that I didn't request it not to run.
> 
> You did - I bet
> 
> # debconf-show tetex-bin
> [...]
> * tetex-bin/upd_map: false
> 
> This has to be true if you want to use update-updmap

At least on one of the two machines it was set to false for some reason.
Thanks for the explanation.  This explains the behaviour of the
update-updmap script.

> It's the behaviour you desired when you installed it. The default for
> this debconf question is true. If you have used a somewhat recent
> version of tetex-bin, you have been properly warned:

Regards,

	Joey

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