On Tue, Apr 28, 2009, David A. Case wrote: > I upgraded from ubuntu 8.10 to 9.04; now kpsewhich requires root > permissions: e.g. "kpsewhich article.cls" returns nothins, but "sudo > kpsewhich article.cls" returns the correct path.
Sorry for the false alarm--I tracked the problem down to a stray (and incorrect) TEXINPUTS environment variable. Root was working just because the root account did not have the bad variable. Sorry for the noise...thx..dac