On a fresh install of TeXlive on a Linux box (Linux Mint 11) I get the following error message:
! LaTeX Error: File `scalefnt.sty' not found.
But the file is there:
$ find /usr/ -name 'scalefnt.sty' -print
/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/carlisle/scalefnt.sty
Why pdflatex
did not find it?
Is it a bug in the TeXLive installation process?
Until now I have solved this problem by adding lines like this one :
export TEXINPUTS=$TEXINPUTS:/usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/carlisle/
in my .bashrc
file.
Now I have 20+ such lines in my .bashrc
.
There must be a better way to solve this problem.
-- Update --
Running texhash
did not solve the problem.
$ sudo texhash
[sudo] password :
texhash: Updating /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN...
texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE...
texhash: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
texhash: Done.
I think the ls-R
file in /usr/local/share/
was created by texhash
. It is empty. I found in the kpathsea
doc how to log : export TEXMFLOG=/tmp/texmf.log
. After running pdflatex
I get in the log :
$ cat /tmp/texmf.log
1309254390 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R
1309254390 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R
1309254390 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R
1309254390 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R
1309254390 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/pdftex/pdflatex.fmt
1309254390 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/letter.cls
1309254390 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/letter.cls
1309254390 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo
1309254390 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/latex/base/size10.clo
1309254390 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
1309254390 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/babel.sty
1309254390 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.ldf
1309254390 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.ldf
1309254390 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/babel.def
1309254390 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.cfg
1309254390 /usr/share/texmf-texlive/tex/generic/babel/frenchb.cfg
In the texlive setup I use, the files /usr/share/texmf/ls-R
and /usr/share/texmf-texlive/ls-R
are links to /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN
and /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
respectively.
I don't understand why it does not work since the style file is in one of the ls-R files:
$ grep scalefnt.sty /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVE
scalefnt.sty
This looks like a bug in the texlive package installation process (in Linux Mint/Ubuntu).
mktexlsr
(texhash)? You should be able to dosudo texhash
orsudo mktexlsr
to rebuild the list of files. Does that solve the problem?