Bug#672876: texlive-binaries: updmap always fails

[Toni Mueller <support@oeko.net>]

Hi Norbert,

On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:11:21AM +0900, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mo, 14 Mai 2012, Toni Mueller wrote:
> >   /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
> 
> > ERROR:  The following map file(s) couldn't be found:
> >         arabi.map (in /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg)
> >         arabtex.map (in /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg)
> >         thai.map (in /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg)
> 
> How did they end up in there?

I have no idea - but I do have a tendency to install whatever random
packages are in the Debian archive, not only those that I strictly
need... although I do need TeX.

> > # updmap  --syncwithtrees
> 
> YOu should never do that on Debian ... .never ...

I did that because the error message instructed me to do this.

> > Undefined subroutine &main::disableMap called at /usr/bin/updmap line 343.
> Fixed in svn of TEX Live.

Ok.

> > 10texlive-lang-arab.cfg
> Is this from OLDSTABLE????? I.e. from TeX Live 2007???

Maybe, but I can't remember.

> Can you purge texlive-lang-arab please. And remove this file,
> and run	
> 	update-updmap
> as root.

Done. Now, running "dpkg --configure -a" completed.

> No, I am quite sure that it is the above
> 	10texlive-lang-arab.cfg
> which is a left over from pre-history.

;}

> >   APT prefers testing
> >   APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental')
> 
> Did you have a mixture of 2007 - 2009 - 2011 at soem point?
> Mixing testing and experimental and having *oldstable* files
> looks like a huge mess.

The "experimental" is only in there because I wanted to have the 3.3
kernel. I added it only very recently.



Kind regards,
--Toni++