chesky@maxwell:~/Documents/tex practice$ luatools --variables Nothing ? Strange, here $>luatools --variables AFMFONTS=.:$TEXMF/fonts/afm//:$OSFONTDIR// BIBINPUTS=.:$TEXMF/bibtex/bib// BIBINPUTS.bibtex8=.:$TEXMF/bibtex/{bib,}// BSTINPUTS=.:$TEXMF/bibtex/{bst,csf}// BSTINPUTS.bibtex8=.:$TEXMF/bibtex/{bst,csf,}// CMAPFONTS=.:$TEXMF/fonts/cmap// CWEBINPUTS=.:$TEXMF/cweb// ENCFONTS=.:$TEXMF/fonts/enc// FC_CACHEDIR=$SELFAUTOLOC/cache FONTCONFIG_FILE=fonts.conf <snippet> parse_first_line=t parse_first_line.tex=f pool_free=47500 pool_size=1250000 save_size=5000 shell_escape=f stack_size=5000 string_vacancies=90000 trie_size=300000
(166 lines) Do you have luatools in your $PATH ? It should be in the same dir of texlua.
chesky@maxwell:~/Documents/tex practice$ texlua -help Usage: luatex --lua=FILE [OPTION]... [TEXNAME[.tex]] [COMMANDS] ok, texlua is in your $PATH
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