Bug#348513: [SPAM?]: Bug#348513: [SPAM?]: Bug#348513: [SPAM?]: Bug#348513: tetex-doc: tetexdoctk fails with "Couldn't open system-wide default config file texdocrc"

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Joshua Lee <joshua613@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

We don't understand each other.  The message is still "Couldn't open
system-wide default config file texdocrc", right?  And the file
/etc/texdoctk/texdocrc still does not exist?  You tried 

cp /usr/share/tetex-base/texdocrc /etc/texdoctk/

without success?  What was the problem with that command?

And, most importantly, what's the output of

dpkg -l perl perl-tk

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)