update-texmf (8) Linux Manual Page

update-texmf – shell script to generate /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf

Synopsis

update-texmf [options]

Description

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.

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda [at] debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).