Re: problem for updating tetex-bin(3.0-13) on Feb 11,2006

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Hi,

I'm not the best person to help you, but I'll give it a try since you
seem to need it badly.

"yefei" <yefei@castu.tsinghua.edu.cn> wrote:

> fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.

[...]

>   However, I did find that fmtutil.cnf is sitting in 
> /var/lib/texmf/web2c/. And after I created a symlink 

This is the proper location. Therefore, the question is, why didn't
fmtutil find it?

> for it in /usr/share/texmf/web2c/, it passed, but
> the next step(updmap-sys) failed, which said 'updmap.cfg 
> not found'. This time I still created a symlink for updmap.cfg
> in /usr/share/texmf/web2c/. It still could not pass, it 
> said 'updmap.cfg should not in /usr/share/texmf/web2c/'.

IMHO, you should erase the symlinks you created in order to get back to
a state that is as clean as possible. Then, please tell us the output of
the following commands (as root, in the _same environment_ as used for
the upgrade):

  # env | grep TEXMF
  # kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFSYSVAR
  # kpsewhich --var-value TEXMFSYSCONFIG
  # TEXMFVAR=/var/lib/texmf TEXMFCONFIG=/etc/texmf /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/tcfmgr --cmd find --file fmtutil.cnf
  
On my system, the last command outputs /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
and this is more or less how fmtutil-sys (a wrapper for fmtutil that is
called from the tetex maintainer scripts) finds fmtutil.cnf.

-- 
Florent