Bug#348513: [SPAM?]: Bug#348513: [SPAM?]: Bug#348513: tetex-doc: tetexdoctk fails with "Couldn't open system-wide default config file texdocrc"
Joshua Lee <joshua613@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 02:00:36PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
>> > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 1
>> > Errors were encountered while processing:
>> > tetex-doc
>> > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
>>
>> Sorry, that bug was just reported yesterday, it's fixed in 3.0-13 which
>> is in incoming right now. If you want to work around it, simply touch
>> that file (as root, "touch /var/lib/texmf/helpindex.html").
>
> I tried touching the file now. Reinstalling tetex-doc doesn't fix the bug
> I still get the missing file / segfault message when I try to run it.
[...]
>> Purging/reinstalling should bring it back; or download the tetex-doc deb
>> file and install it with "dpkg --force-confmiss <deb-file>".
>
> I tried running dpkg -i --force-confmiss on the tetex-doc file in
> /var/cache/apt/archives and that still doesn't make it work.
Sorry, my fault. First of all, I forgot that we use ucf to manage
/etc/texdoctk/texdocrc, and although this is a great workaround for some
missing features in dpkg's conffile handling, it doesn't understand
--force-confmiss. Second, texdocrc is in fact in the package
tetex-base.
But it's much easier: simply copy /usr/share/tetex-base/texdocrc to
/etc/texdoctk/texdocrc.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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