Depois de fazer uma instalação mínima do TeX eu tento abrir o arquivo .dvi gerado com o < Comando href="http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Installation#First_test"> :
tex '\empty Hello world!\bye'
e recebo a seguinte saída:
warning: kpathsea: configuration file texmf.cnf not found in these directories: /etc/texmf/web2c:/usr/local/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texmf/web2c:/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c://share/texmf/web2c.
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 cmr10
mktexpk: Permiso denegado
kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.
page: Warning: font 'cmr10' not found, trying metric files instead
kpathsea: Running mkofm cmr10
mkofm: Permiso denegado
kpathsea: Running mktextfm cmr10
mktextfm: Permiso denegado
page: Error: could not load font 'cmr10'
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode / --bdpi 600 --mag 1+0/600 --dpi 600 cmr10
mktexpk: Permiso denegado
page: Warning: font 'cmr10' not found, trying metric files instead
kpathsea: Running mkofm cmr10
mkofm: Permiso denegado
kpathsea: Running mktextfm cmr10
mktextfm: Permiso denegado
page: Error: could not load font 'cmr10'