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I just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 and was trying to get my custom styles/fonts and the like to work. As on all distributions before, I store them in $HOME/texmf, with a tree structure according to the main TEXMF-Folder.

I did run texhash but my system seems unable to find the files in $home/texmf (i.e. kpsewhich "anyfilenameinthatfolder" doesn't return anything). However, using kpsepath, it is apparently listed, e.g. for kpsepath tex it gives:

:!!/home/USERNAME/texmf/tex/

amongst others. kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME returns:

 /home/USERNAME/texmf

So that appears to be correct, too. Finally, I thought that something in my .cnf file is wrong, so I opened /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf and found 

TEXMF = {$TEXMFCONFIG,$TEXMFVAR,$TEXMFHOME,$TEXMFSYSCONFIG,!!$TEXMFSYSVAR,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFMAIN,!!$TEXMFDIST}

which again seems to be correct. I have no clue what is wrong here, since it used to work fine. Any help would be highly appreciated.

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Dunno if this helps but I had problems getting the path to TeX Live's binaries recognized (e.g. tlmgr). The solution for me was to add the path to /etc/profiles by including PATH=/usr/local/texlive/2011/bin/x86_64-linux:$PATH in it. Maybe you can do something similar but for TEXMFHOME? – N.N. Oct 20 '11 at 16:59
That might be the problem. I installed texlive straight from the repos, is tlmgr included in that distribution? I did also try to run texhash texmf and the resulting ls-R file lists all the files in the folder, however is not read by my system. The same happens when I put the files into usr/local/share/texmf - I ran sudo texhash, files aren't recognized altough listed in the respective ls-R. I did follow Herberts suggestions [link] (tex.stackexchange.com/questions/27922/…) - no success. Any ideas of what I should do? – David Oct 20 '11 at 17:28
The TeX Live from the repos is the 2009/Debian one and has not tlmgr. The problem might be in a ls-R file in ~/texmf: if one's there, changes to the tree will not be seen (and the file will not be regenerated by texhash). If it's there, delete it. – egreg Oct 20 '11 at 20:36
I tried it first without generating a ls-R file. Since it did not work, I used texhash ~/texmf to get a ls-R file in my texmf-folder. Did not work, too, so I deleted it, still the same problem. Tex does not seem to update its files when I ran texhash or mktexslr. Even files in usr/local/share/texmf are not found! – David Oct 20 '11 at 21:17
I seem to have the same problem on Ubuntu 11.10, TeXLive 2011. I cannot get LaTeX recognize the fonts in my ~/texmf folder. As a fairly non-geek user, I cannot offer any suggestions unfortunately. – mustail Oct 21 '11 at 17:15
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A community wiki answer, based on the OP David's comments.

The solution, which worked for the OP and is recommended by him: don't use (deinstall) the older Ubuntu/Debian repository version and install an up-to-date version of TeX Live, which also works on Ubuntu/Debian. Additionally is has the advantage that you can use the TeX Live Manager tlmgr for installing the most recent updates.

Source for download and installation: http://www.tug.org/texlive/

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note that the tug.org address (very properly) only gives you a loader; the loader takes its stuff from mirror.ctan.org, which is a distributed object and hence avoids all the load going to one site (terabytes/day tend to make one look around uneasily in case the accountants are looking over your shoulder). – wasteofspace Mar 4 '12 at 0:34

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