NAME
mktexlsr - create ls-R databases
SYNOPSIS
mktexlsr
[directories]
DESCRIPTION
This manual page is not meant to be exhaustive. The complete
documentation for this version of can be found in the info file
or manual
R Kpathsea: A library for path searching .
mktexlsr
is used to generate the ls-R databases used by the kpathsea library.
It will create them for the specified directories, or for a default
list if no directories are specified.
OPTIONS
mktexlsr
accepts the following options:
--help
Print help message and exit.
--version
Print version information and exit.
NOTES
When called by root with no arguments, mktexlsr in Debian ignores
TEXMF trees under $HOME. This is to avoid creating undesirable files
such as /root/texmf/ls-R when doing usual maintainance (it is generally
a bad idea to work with TeX as root, therefore having a file such as
/root/texmf/ls-R in the first place is rather pointless). If you really
want to update the ls-R databases for such TEXMF trees, simply list them
explicitely on the command-line.
