Bug#297284: base: tetex after sarge install not setup correctly

["Jeffrey B. Green" <jbgreen@frontiernet.net>]

Sent this bug in this morning, however during the day at work I thought 
that the environment variables that were working from woody might be the 
problem. So I commented all pertinent to tetex out except for TEXINPUTS 
and voila, it worked. Before you close out this bug report, you might 
put in some test for the correct environment variable settings in your 
tetex debconfig.

Other than the above, please close this bug...

thanks,
jeff


Jeffrey B. Green wrote:

> Package: base
> Severity: grave
>
> Installed sarge this last weekend and now trying to latex a document, but
> having a cascade of problems in getting it to work. First problem is:
>
>
> /home/jeff/unk/250/exams/1[429] r lat
> latex wrapper
> This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)
> kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.efmt
> fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
> I can't find the format file `latex.efmt'!
>
> I fixed that by rebuilding the ls-lR file via texconfig. (Also moved 
> fmtutil.cnf to /etc/texmf and put a link at wherever it was.) However,
> the next is not so obvious. I now get (at the tail of a long output:
>
> ...
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on latex.log.
> mv: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.log': Permission denied
> mv: cannot create regular file `/usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt': Permission denied
> /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mktexupd: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.fmt not a file.
> I can't find the format file `latex.efmt'!
>
> The directory setup is:
>
> /home/jeff/unk/250/exams/1[431] ll -d /usr/share/texmf/web2c
> 4 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 4096 2005-02-28 06:33 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/
> /home/jeff/unk/250/exams/1[432] ll -d /var/lib/texmf/web2c
> 1 drwxr-xr-x  2 root root 1024 2005-02-28 06:41 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/
>
> thanks for any help.
>
> jeff
>
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: 3.1
>  APT prefers testing
>  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
> Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
> Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-powerpc
> Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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