Re: texdoc doesn't find documentation

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Jörg Sommer <joerg@alea.gnuu.de> wrote:

>> (in other words, it uses $TEXDOCS) and checks for every supported value
>> of $ext whether this gives any result.  Symlinks should be totally
>> transparent to it (and they are, here).  Is amsldoc.pdf.gz in your
>> /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R? 
>
> No.
>
> % grep amsldoc /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R
> amsldoc.hyp
> % grep '^\./doc' /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R
> zsh: exit 1     grep '^\./doc' /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R

Aha.  What gives

(cd /usr/share/texmf-texlive/; ls -LRa | grep '^\./doc')

on your system?  Really nothing?  What's the output of

which mktexlsr
md5sum /usr/bin/mktexlsr

Regards, Frank
-- 
Dr. Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)