Re: tetex-bin 2.0.2-14 problems AGAIN
On Wednesday 26 May 2004 07:40, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 25 May 2004, Joris Huizer wrote:
> > v.demartino2@virgilio.it wrote:
> > >It has become a serious problem!
> > >After the message here attached I completely uninstalled all the tetex
> > >packages
> > >& the tex connected ones (lyx, texmacs, etc.) by means of "apt-get
> > > remove --purge pasckage"; then - to be on the safe side - I removed by
> > > hand the /etc/texmf & /usr/share/texmf directories with their subdirs.
> > >
> > >Reinstalling all over again tetex-2.0.2 from the official debian testing
> > >archive via apt-get install tetex-bin again caiuses a problem: when
> > > setting the package up debian testing complains about a missing
> > > configuration file under /etc/texmf (as I said this dir was removed by
> > > hand by me!)
> > >
> > >What's going on?
> > >
> > >Please help
> > >Vittorio
> >
> > You can try and type,
> > dpkg -S <file>
> > which will tell you in which package that missing file is; Then do a
> > apt-get --reinstall install <package>
> >
> > I think that'll solve your problem... if not, install apt-file and use
> > that to search that configuration file :)
> >
> > Oh, by the way, to be on the save side, do *not* remove files or
> > directories unless you know what you're doing... ;)
>
> I've done this a few times, heart in mouth. My method was, first, to
> remove all the relevant files and directories found with locate. Next, I
> edited /var/lib/dpkg/status, /var/cache/debconf/config.dat, and
> /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates to show that the relevant package was not
> installed. Finally I ran aptitude and changed the entries there to
> "uninstalled". I'm not sure that this something you are encouraged to do
> but it's worked for me when I've had to resort to it.
>
> Anthony
>Setting up tetex-bin (2.0.2-14) ...
Well I did it as you suggested.
I found that the configuration program of tetex-bin 2.0.2-14 expected
an /etc/texmf/texmf/05TeXMF.cnf file that actually was codified with
something like /usr/share/texmf/..../05TeXMF.cnf.
I copied the required file under/etc/texmf/texmf/ and the configuration
complained about a missing /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf file. I found it under the
"usual" /usr/share/texmf/.... and copied in the right position and now the
error is as follow:
Regenerating /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf ... done
update-fmtutil; Something seems wrong.
dpkg: error processing tetex-bin (--configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
tetex-bin
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
Has anyone any idea on why this has been happening?
What to do next?
An extreme solution would be to get rid of every tex related package (via
apt-get emove --purge), eliminate the directories involved, and starting a
new installation all over again FROM SCRATCH.
In this case what are all the directories I should delete?
Ciao in a despair
Vittorio
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