Bug#353474: tetex-bin: Fails to install

[Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de>]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 13:25 -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> 
> Script started on Mon Feb 20 13:24:15 2006
> ]2;root@heinrich:~root@heinrich:~# ls -l /etc/texmf/fmt.d/
> total 7
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1364 Dec 11 09:34 00tex.cnf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3091 Feb 18 14:23 01tetex.cnf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  271 Mar  9  2005 40jadetex.cnf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  269 Jun 11  2003 40jadetex.cnf.dpkg-old
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root  565 Oct 31 06:40 50cyrtexinfo.cnf
> ]2;root@heinrich:~root@heinrich:~# kpsewhere --format="web2c files" fmtutil.cnf
> /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
> ]2;root@heinrich:~root@heinrich:~# egrep "^latex" $(kpsewhich --format="web2c files" fmtutil.cnf)
> latex		pdfetex		language.dat	-translate-file=cp227.tcx *latex.ini
> ]2;root@heinrich:~root@heinrich:~# kpsewhich -progname=latex -format=tex latex.ini
> ]2;root@heinrich:~root@heinrich:~# exit
> 
> Script done on Mon Feb 20 13:24:40 2006

Thanks, everything looks fine except the final call for kpsewhich. That
should return 

$ kpsewhich -progname=latex -format=tex latex.ini
/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/config/latex.ini
$ 

Does that file exist on your system? It is part of tetex-base, which you
have installed.

Maybe the kpath-searching is broken. What is the output of 

  ls -l /etc/texmf/texmf.d/

  kpsewhich -progname=latex -show-path=tex 

?

cheerio
ralf