UPDATE-FMTUTIL(8)

NAME
update-fmtutil - shell script to generate /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf

SYNOPSIS
update-fmtutil [options]

DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the update-fmtutil command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original script was designed for Debian packaging system.

update-fmtutil is a shell script to generate /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf from files matching the pattern /etc/texmf/fmt.d/*.cnf.

The tex-common package provides 00tex.cnf only and other TeX-related packages can provide their own .cnf files in /etc/texmf/fmt.d/. These files should have a name starting with a two-digit integer indicating the order in which update-fmtutil is supposed to read them.

A user who wants to customize /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf should add, for example, 22local-foo.cnf in /etc/texmf/fmt.d/ and run 'update-fmtutil'.

OPTIONS

-v  Show verbose messages (deprecated; will be the default setting soon).

--check
    Executes additional checks that all necessary files are present in the kpathsea database. Don't use this in maintainer scripts.

AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).