Bug#140460: tetex-extra: it won't install, config fails - additional info from cont-en.log

[Geert-Jan Hut <Geert.Jan.Hut@hutsoftware.nl>]

I have the same problem. I found however, that the file cont-en.log contained 
the error logging shown below. Apparently the maximum number of string 
characters is exceeded. I have installed tetex-extra because of a dependency 
on another program, so I have not changed the default installation.

The problem I have with this is that - as I didn't purposely installed this 
package - I don't know how to increase this string limit. I assume it is done 
by editing a config file, but which one I don't know. ( I need a wizard's 
help, see below ;-))

This error also ends the whole installation process, as the installation 
script itself returns error exit status 100. The machine itself is a test 
machine, which I currently use to try to install the latest KDE3.1 release 
candidate, and these packages are now also not installed.

============== file: cont-en.log ==================
...
) (/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/page-txt.tex
loading        : Context Page Macros / Texts
! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [pool size=219636].
<argument> \string \placelayouttextline
                                        \v!hoog
\letvalue #1->\expandafter \let \csname #1
                                          \endcsname
l.293 ...ue{\string\placelayouttextline\v!hoog   }
                                                  \gobbletwoarguments
If you really absolutely need more capacity,
you can ask a wizard to enlarge me.


Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 15999 strings out of 63699
 219636 string characters out of 219636
 206266 words of memory out of 1000001
 16087 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+10000
 7 words of font info for 0 fonts, out of 800000 for 1000
 0 hyphenation exceptions out of 1000
 24i,1n,24p,218b,65s stack positions out of 1500i,500n,5000p,100000b,40000s
 0 PDF objects out of 300000
 0 named destinations out of 131072
 0 words of extra memory for PDF output out of 65536
No pages of output.
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Please let me know if you need the whole logfile, this part is only the end.

I hope it helps, if you need any more information, please let me know. 

Geert-Jan.