[tex-live] pdftex and other binaries updates

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Sat Sep 27 12:48:48 CEST 2008


On Sat, 27 Sep 2008, Peter Ragosch wrote:
> > kpsewhich -var-value=SELFAUTOPARENT shows
> /usr/local/texlive/2008

Strange.

> for me PATH starts with /usr/local/texlive/2008/bin/x86_64-linux, 

That is fine.

> Nevertheless, su -c "command" works without any error and I guess the sudo 
> behavior must be discussed with people that are deeper involved into 
> distribution internals. 

Can you in both cases do
	printenv
and send the output, then we should see the difference.

Maybe you have an environmental variable
	TEXMF
or so set.

Best wishes

Norbert

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