LaTeX on Ubuntu

[Daniel Shahaf]

Oleg Goldshmidt wrote on Tue, Apr 08, 2014 at 17:55:59 +0300:
> I got desperate and ran
> 
> $ export TEXINPUTS=$(ls -R /usr/share/tex* | awk '/^\/.+:$/ {printf
> "%s",$0}')"."
> 
> After this, everything worked.
> 
> Has anyone here encountered this problem? Solved it? Any ideas?

- strace to see where article.cls is being looked for at?

- Maybe your user has some TEX* envvars or texmf trees that get in the
  way.  In particular, TEXINPUTS might have been set before you ran the
  'export' command.  Perhaps try building as a new user account (with no
  envvars or trees other than those the build script itself sets)?

Good luck.

Daniel