---
name: "update-texmf-config"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "tex-common"
version: "6.19"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/update-texmf-config"
---

# update-texmf-config(8)

script used in maintainer scripts to trigger tex-common actions

## NAME

update-texmf-config - script used in maintainer scripts to trigger tex-common actions

## SYNOPSIS

**update-texmf-config** *\[options\]*

## DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the **update-texmf-config** command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original script was designed for Debian packaging system.

**update-texmf-config** is a shell script that is called from maintainer scripts shipping new map files, hyphenation patterns, or any other TeX input file.

The script simply activates the respective trigger, namely texmf-map for font map files, texmf-hyphen for hyphenation patterns, and texmf-format for format updates. All the necessary action will then be carried out by the tex-common package.

## OPTIONS

- **map**

  Activate the texmf-map trigger.

- **hyphen**

  Activate the texmf-hyphen trigger.

- **format**

  Activate the texmf-format trigger.

## SEE ALSO

Further information can be found in /usr/share/doc/tex-common/README.Debian.{txt,pdf.html}

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Norbert Preining \<preining@logic.at\>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).