This is affecting me in a fresh Ubuntu 18.04 installation. Thank's for the temporary solution, @Ernst.
Here is a related question (made 9 months prior to this bug report openning) on the TeX StackExchange website: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/431244/texdoc-does-not-work- anymore-after-ubuntu-upgrade/580678 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to texlive-base in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1817785 Title: installation of texlive-latex-base-doc does not make the documentation available to 'texdoc' Status in texlive-base package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I had texlive installed previously, on a freshly installed 18.04 system. Now I installed texlive-latex-base-doc. after installation, texdoc did not find the requested documentation, e.g. $texdoc amsldoc Sorry, no documentation found for amsldoc. Only after executing 'dpkg-reconfigure texlive-base' the documentation was found. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04 Package: texlive-latex-base-doc (not installed) ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.15.0-45.48-generic 4.15.18 Uname: Linux 4.15.0-45-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.5 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: KDE Date: Tue Feb 26 20:56:05 2019 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-08-28 (1643 days ago) InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20140416.1) SourcePackage: texlive-base UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to bionic on 2018-08-14 (196 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/texlive-base/+bug/1817785/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
