[tex-live] prolems running latex in tex-live

Werner LEMBERG wl at gnu.org
Sun Sep 21 07:20:18 CEST 2008


> I had no recollection of setting any environment variable.
> However, I checked my .bashrc file and found:
> export TEXMF={$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!TEXMFMAIN}
> [...]

As a corollary of this thread: Maybe the installer should do something
like this:

  set | grep -i tex | less

to show the user what environment variables related to tex (or not)
are set, together with a message that the user have to check them.


    Werner


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