Hello Frank, Frank Kster wrote: > you can use sudo's option -H. Yes, I know this option, but I use it hardly ever. And so only in the rarest cases I think to use it to upgrade tex.
> Hm. unsetting HOME in postinst's environment could relieve you from this > inconvenience. But I don't know which other effects it could have. In my opinon, a {post,pre}{install,remove} script should never do anything in $HOME, be it mine or root's and regardless of having called texhash/mktexlsr or not. Regards Uwe -- Uwe Zeisberger fib where fib = 0 : 1 : zipWith (+) fib (tail fib)
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