Re: Bug#352630: texinfo: kpsewhich cannot open shared object libkapthsea.so.4

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Ralf Stubner wrote:
> > But checking the exit code of "kpsewhich 2>/dev/null" is equivalent and
> > probably easier to understand in case somebody else has to read the
> > code... 

I do

if kpsewhich --version > /dev/null 2>&1 ; then
	# do whatever you want to do
fi

> Should something similar be added to the maintainer scripts for font
> packages? There we also call mktexlsr and updmap-sys, if they exist.
> Both of them call kpsewhich.

Good question: We should think about this, and either care for this in
the dh_installtex autoscripts, or add something to the TeX policy that
you *must* depend on a basic tex system (either tetex-base or
texlive-base).

Best wishes

Norbert

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