[XeTeX] Linux setup question (follow up)

[Ralf Stubner]

Dennis Drescher <dennis_drescher at sil.org> writes:

> So I ran:
>
> texhash /home/dennis/.texmf-var/web2c
>
> and
>
> sudo texhash /var/lib/texmf/web2c
>
> This created the Is-R file in each of these directories.

Which is useless. ls-R files are only searched in the top-most directory
of a TEXMF-tree. And in most cases there is no need to specify a
directory. Hence use

sudo -H texhash

to update the ls-R files in the system wide TEXMF trees and

texhash

to do the same for your personal ones. 

cheerio
ralf