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.

Releases

12 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 5 times.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1–5.0
  3. 6.0
  4. 7–9
  5. 10–12
  6. 13

--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.