Bug#101889: xdvi does not run because of missing link to /etc/alternatives/

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

Olivier Cappe writes:
 > Package: tetex-bin
 > Version: 1.0.7+20001218-4
 > 
 > Apparently, the post install script of tetex-bin fails to create the
 > links to /etc/alternatives/xdvi.bin et /etc/alternatives/oxdvi.bin:
 > 
 > udon:/usr/bin# ls -l xdvi*
 >   -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         2258 Jun  3 19:45 xdvi*
 >   -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       140316 Jun  3 19:45 xdvi.real*
 >   udon:/usr/bin# ls -l oxdvi*
 >   -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         1827 Jun  3 19:45 oxdvi*
 >   -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       140540 Jun  3 19:45 oxdvi.real*
 > 
 > but the xdvi and oxdvi wrappers need these :
 > 
 > udon:/usr/bin# more xdvi
 >   [...]
 >   xdvi.bin $NAMEOPT $args $filename || exit 1
 > 
 > udon:/usr/bin# more xdvi
 >   [...]
 >   exec oxdvi.bin $NAMEOPT ${1+"$@"}
 > 

Please let us know, if you did an upgrade (from which version) or a
fresh install.

Also please run
 update-alternatives --display xdvi.bin
and send us the result.

You might try to run
 apt-get install tetex-bin --reinstall

which might fix your problem.

Still, we don't know why this happens. We can't reproduce it. The
postinst correctly calls update-alternatives.

Christoph