> I discovered I hand no texmf-local in /usr/local/teTeX/share even > though one of the environment variables below is pointing toward it.
texmf-local is an optional thing. If you create it (i.e. put files into the proper subdirectories, run texhash), it will just work. > I also discovered .texmf-config and .texmf-var in /root, something I am teTeX-3.0 has two set of directory trees for configuration and variable data files. One set (TEXMFSYSVAR / TEXMFSYSCONFIG) is for global configuration to set defaults valid for the whole installation. The other set (TEXMFVAR / TEXMFCONFIG) is for user specific configuration and the default paths for them are below $HOME. The concepts of teTeX's texmf trees are explained in the teTeX manual, which you can open by calling texdoc TETEXDOC or by opening it from here: http://tug.org/teTeX/texmf/doc/tetex/TETEXDOC.pdf > /root/.texmf-var/web2c/etex.fmt I guess that you have used texconfig (or fmtutil) instead of texconfig-sys (resp. fmtutil-sys). You can safely remove /root/.texmf-var and /root/.texmf-config unless you want to use TeX as root with special settings. Thomas
