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Bug 100826 - changing tetex docs to /usr/share/doc brokes texdoc and kpsewhich
Summary: changing tetex docs to /usr/share/doc brokes texdoc and kpsewhich
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High minor (vote)
Assignee: TeX project
URL: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-...
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Depends on: 124511
Blocks:
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Reported: 2005-07-30 10:41 UTC by Nilton Volpato
Modified: 2008-06-18 21:25 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Nilton Volpato 2005-07-30 10:41:35 UTC 
tetex comes with an utility to display the documentation of packages and
commands, called texdoc. After changing the location of tetex documentation to
/usr/share/doc and don't telling this to kpathsea, texdoc and kpathsea stopped
working. They can't find the documentation. To solve this, you may just change
the line:
TEXDOCS = .;$TEXMF/doc//
to
TEXDOCS = .;$TEXMF/doc//;/usr/share/doc/tetex-2.0.2-r5//
in the file /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf after installation of tetex. And run
mktexlsr
to rebuild the database.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.texdoc fullpage [will not find the documentation]
2.apply the correction to texmf.cnf and rebuild database
3.texdoc fullpage [will find the documentation!]
Comment 1 Nilton Volpato 2005-07-30 10:43:10 UTC 
The url show a forum topic with some more details.
Comment 2 Martin Ehmsen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-03-14 15:36:35 UTC 
This is fixed in tetex-3.0_p1, which we hope to soon stabilize
Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2007-04-04 15:24:06 UTC 
Closing as tetex-3.0_p1-r3 is stable now.
Comment 4 Nilton Volpato 2008-06-18 21:25:08 UTC 
This bug is not fixed in tetex-3.0_p1, please reopen and fix!

I'm currently using tetex-3.0_p1 and using texdoc from the command line does not work at all.