Bug#244601: tetex-base: solved the problem at least for me.

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 08.11.04 Massimo Cetra (mcetra@navynet.it) wrote:

Hi,

> Manually running mpost I obtained:
> 
> server2:~# mpost -ini  -jobname=metafun -progname=mpost metafun.mp
> This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.5) (INIMP)
> (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp
> ! I can't find file `plain.mp'.
> l.27   input plain.mp
>                       ; % John Hobby's file
> 		      
> 		      
> So it seems plain.mp isnt'there. And locate did not find it.
> Installing tetex-extra, which includes plain.mp, solved the problem.
> 
> It seems tetex-base depends on tetex-extra.
> 
Nope is does not! tetex-extra was split off for people wanting only a
minimal installation. In fmtutil.cnf we check for metafun.mp and if
it is present we assume tetex-extra to be installed and hence create
the formats for it. In that case the file was present, although
tetex-extra was not installed. This is the problem we have in the
moment.
The long description of tetex-bin reads:

 Lambda, Omega, MetaPost, MetaFun and AmSTeX won't work without
 having tetex-extra installed.

H.
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