/usr/bin/mptopdf is in texlive-latex-base 2016.20170123-5.
This file is owned by root:root, with mode 0o777.
It is a symlink to /usr/bin/../share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/context/perl/mptopdf.pl
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