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Create ls-r databases

Part of mktexlsr(1).

Usage

mktexlsr [directories]

Overview

This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete documentation for this version of TeX can be found in the info file or manual Kpathsea: A library for path searching.

mktexlsr is used to generate the ls-R databases used by the kpathsea library. It will create them for the specified directories, or for a default list if no directories are specified.

Options

mktexlsr accepts the following options:

--help

Print help message and exit.

--version

Print version information and exit.

Releases

17 releases since Debian 1.3 (Bo); the text changed 12 times.

  1. 1.3
  2. 2.0–2.1
  3. 2.2
  4. 3.0
  5. 3.1
  6. 4.0
  7. 5.0
  8. 6.0
  9. 7
  10. 8
  11. 9
  12. 10
  13. 11–Arch

--help since Debian 2.0 (Hamm); --version since Debian 2.0 (Hamm).

Reporting bugs

Report bugs to: [email protected] (https://lists.tug.org/tex-k)
TeX Live home page: https://tug.org/texlive/

From texlive-doc 2026.1-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.