Bug#348513: [SPAM?]: Bug#348513: [SPAM?]: Bug#348513: tetex-doc: tetexdoctk fails with "Couldn't open system-wide default config file texdocrc"
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 03:01:29PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Joshua Lee <joshua613@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
Unfortunately that doesn't seem to work either. I installed it from the
tetex-doc package from incoming so the --purge removal would be clean as
well. Still same message and perl segfaulting.
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