Bug#497782: texlive-base-bin: latex compilation fails as "normal" user

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

"Jérôme Champavère" <jchampavere@gmail.com> wrote:

>  jchampavere@jlaptop:~$ latex file.tex
>  This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
>   %&-line parsing enabled.
>   kpathsea: Running mktexfmt latex.fmt
>   tcfmgr: config file `tcfmgr.map' (usually in $TEXMFMAIN/texconfig) not
>   found.
>   fmtutil: config file `fmtutil.cnf' not found.
>   I can't find the format file `latex.fmt'!
>
>  Running with sudo surprisingly does not fail.
[...]
>  I also noticed that using the front-end kile, I can compile the tex documents.
>  Only the command line bugs. I have no explication of such a behaviour.

You probably have some environment variables set in your shell which
spoil your latex run.  Try

env -i latex file.tex

and

env | grep TEX

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg