installation of texlive-latex-base-doc does not make the documentation available to 'texdoc'

[Ernst Kloppenburg]

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)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Leonardo Gama (leo-gama)]

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

[Paul Natsuo Kishimoto (khaeru)]

This is affecting me in Ubuntu 22.10, upgraded from 22.04 LTS. I also found the Stack Exchange question linked above. The `dpkg-recognfigure` command did not work for me, but `sudo mktexlsr /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc` did work.