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update-texmf(8)

update-texmf8

Shell script to generate /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf

Usage

update-texmf [options]

Overview

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

update-texmf is a shell script to generate /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf from files in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/*.cnf

A user who wants to customize /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf should add, for example, 22mymacro.cnf in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/ and run 'update-texmf'.

Options

-v, --verbose

Show verbose messages.

-d, --debug

Show debugging information, and don't delete temporary files. Implies --verbose.

-o, --output FILE

Generate output in FILE instead of /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf.

History

  • Debian 13 (Trixie): the text shown here
  • Debian 12 (Bookworm) to Debian 10 (Buster)
  • Debian 9 (Stretch) to Debian 7 (Wheezy)
  • Debian 6.0 (Squeeze)
  • Debian 5.0 (Lenny) to Debian 3.1 (Sarge)
  • Debian 3.0 (Woody)

--debug since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); --output since Debian 10 (Buster); --verbose since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -d since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -o since Debian 10 (Buster); -v since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

Author

This manual page was written by Atsuhito Kohda <[email protected]>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

From tex-common 6.19 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.