[tex-live] $TEXMFHOME not working right

[Norbert Preining]

On Do, 13 Mai 2010, Joel C. Salomon wrote:
> chesky at derrial:~$ mktexlsr --verbose `kpsewhich --expand-var='$TEXMFHOME'`
> mktexlsr: Updating /home/chesky/texmf/ls-R...
> mktexlsr: Done.
> 
> The ls-R file is created, but .sty files are still not found for
> typesetting.

No need for that, or even counter-productive. TEXMFHOME is searched
for without ls-R files present.

> I looked for an option in tlmgr for $TEXMFHOME (I vaguely recall such an
> option in the installer?) but could not find it.
> 
> Is there a configuration file to edit to fix this?

It shoujld work.

Can you send the output of
	tlmgr conf
please?

Best wishes

Norbert
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