Bug#586490: tex-common: Error configuring generating web2c fmt

[Dylan Thurston <dpt@math.columbia.edu>]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 02:06:09PM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Sa, 19 Jun 2010, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> > 'pdftexconfig.tex'.  Perhaps it moved packages?
> 
> No it didn't, you have purged an old tetex (which was only removed
> but not purged) and that removed that file, old bug, cannot be fixed
> now since it is in removed-but-not-purged state.
> 
> See /usr/share/doc/texlive-common/NEWS.Debian.gz
> 
> Please do
> 	aptitude reinstall texlive-base
> should fix that.

Thanks!  Indeed that was my problem, and my apologies for missing the
documentation.  (I had read that NEWS entry back in 2007...)  My
system had been mildly broken for a month or so, and this fixed it.

For the benefit of anyone googling this, I also had to reinstall
texlive-latex-base in order to fix the brokenness on my system.
Specifically, I had been getting errors like

! Package color Error: No driver specified.

on certain latex documents run through pdflatex.

Best,
	Dylan Thurston