Bug#353474: tetex-bin: Fails to install

[John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:42:35PM +0100, Ralf Stubner wrote:
> 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.

Yes:

root@heinrich:~# ls -l /usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/config/latex.ini
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 196 Mar 26  2004
/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/latex/config/latex.ini

> Maybe the kpath-searching is broken. What is the output of 
> 
>   ls -l /etc/texmf/texmf.d/

root@heinrich:~# ls -l /etc/texmf/texmf.d/
total 58
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5175 Aug 18  2004 05TeXMF.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6709 Dec 12 09:27 05TeXMF.cnf.dpkg-dist
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5217 Aug 18  2004 05TeXMF.cnf.dpkg-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5154 Jun  1  2003 05TeXMF.cnf~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1080 Apr 21  2004 15Plain.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3410 Dec 12 09:27 45TeXinputs.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1266 Dec 12 09:27 55Fonts.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  163 Dec 12 09:27 65BibTeX.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  689 Dec 12 09:27 75DviPS.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2684 Dec 12 09:27 85Misc.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  333 Apr 21  2004 90TeXDoc.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  434 May 19  2003 90tex4ht.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  434 Dec 28 06:38 90tex4ht.cnf.dpkg-new
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6244 Jun 26  2003 95NonPath.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6485 Dec 12 09:27 95NonPath.cnf.dpkg-dist
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6173 Jun 26  2003 95NonPath.cnf~
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  965 Jan 15  2004 96JadeTeX.cnf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  919 Jun 26  2003 96JadeTeX.cnf~

>   kpsewhich -progname=latex -show-path=tex 

root@heinrich:~# kpsewhich -progname=latex -show-path=tex
.:/root/texmf/tex/latex//:!!/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/latex//:!!/usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/latex//:!!/var/lib/texmf/tex/latex//:!!/var/lib/texmf/tex/latex//:!!/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex//:/root/texmf/tex/generic//:!!/usr/local/share/texmf/tex/generic//:!!/usr/local/lib/texmf/tex/generic//:!!/var/lib/texmf/tex/generic//:!!/var/lib/texmf/tex/generic//:!!/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic//:/root/texmf/tex///:!!/usr/local/share/texmf/tex///:!!/usr/local/lib/texmf/tex///:!!/var/lib/texmf/tex///:!!/var/lib/texmf/tex///:!!/usr/share/texmf/tex///

Thanks,

-- John