UPDATE-TEXMF(8)

✨ update-texmf(8) ✨

System Manager's Manual 💖

💅 NAME 💅

update-texmf is a shell script that generates /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf 🌸

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

update-texmf [options]

📖 DESCRIPTION 📖

okay so this page is a quick little overview of the update-texmf command 🫶 it was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, because the original script was built for the Debian packaging system 🧚

update-texmf is a shell script that builds /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf out of the files in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/*.cnf ✨ it's literally giving "combine all the pieces into one file" energy 🦋

wanna customize /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf? 👑 bestie, just drop a file like 22mymacro.cnf into /etc/texmf/texmf.d/ and then run 'update-texmf' 💜 that's the whole glow-up 🌈

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -v, --verbose — show the verbose messages, so you can see everything it's doing 👀
• -d, --debug — shows debugging info AND leaves the temporary files alone instead of deleting them 🔍 this one automatically turns on --verbose too, no cap 💅
• -o, --output FILE — writes the generated output into FILE instead of the usual /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf 🍓

🦋 SEE ALSO 🦋

more info lives in /usr/share/doc/tex-common/README.Debian.{txt,pdf,html} 📚 go check it out, it's giving full detail ✨

🌸 AUTHOR 🌸

this page was written by Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system 🫶 but honestly anyone's welcome to use it 💕

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ttyl bestie 💅 that was UPDATE-TEXMF(8) 🌈✨