Re: file fmutil

Greg,


It would be convenient for Karl Berry, Norbert Preining, David Carlisle 
and Reinhard Kotucha (the *real* gurus here) to know that you are 
already running fine with TeXworks, setting the path in TeXworks 
preferences.

> Karl, yes I am.
> 
> Running a test file from the command line all references are to /usr/ 
> local/texlive/2025/and friends

Likely, I guess, because you set the $PATH in your own ~.bashrc or 
~.profile.

  > PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/
> games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin:/usr/local/texlive/2025/bin/x86_64- 
> linux

As Carlisle said, /usr/local/texlive/2025/bin/x86_64-linux is *appended* 
to your $PATH; in order for it to have precedence, it has to be *prepended*.

As you're using Ubuntu-based Linux Mint, there is an environment file in 
/etc, which reads,

PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin"

You have to add /usr/local/texlive/2025/bin/x86_64-linux at the 
*beginning* of it; thus,

PATH="/usr/local/texlive/2025/bin/x86_64-linux:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/bin"

(don't forget the colon : after ...linux: )

and restart your computer.


Best regards

Axel