On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 18:17:12 +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: >On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 08:59:03AM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: >> On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 16:46:30 +0100 >> Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote: >> >> > On Sat, Jun 17, 2006 at 16:42:34 +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: >> > >I had added TeXLive for Debian for my Etch.install, all worked well, >> > >until an upgrade. >> > > >> > >So I decided to remove TeXLive again and install Tetex, but now aptitude >> > >seems to be caught in a trap. How do I get aptitude free? >> > > >> > >This is the output from aptitude: >> > >Extracting templates from packages: 100% >> > >Preconfiguring packages ... >> > >(Reading database ... 156744 files and directories currently installed.) >> > >Removing dvipdfmx ... >> > >/var/lib/dpkg/info/dvipdfmx.postrm: line 5: /usr/sbin/update-texmf: No >> > >such file or directory >> > >/var/lib/dpkg/info/dvipdfmx.postrm: line 6: /usr/bin/mktexlsr: No such >> > >file or directory >> > >dpkg: error processing dvipdfmx (--purge): >> > > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127 >> > > Removing preview-latex-style ... >> > > /var/lib/dpkg/info/preview-latex-style.postrm: line 29: mktexlsr: >> > > command not found >> > > dpkg: error processing preview-latex-style (--purge): >> > > subprocess post-removal script returned error exit status 127 >> > > Errors were encountered while processing: >> > > dvipdfmx >> > > preview-latex-style >> > > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) >> > > A package failed to install. Trying to recover: >> > > Press return to continue. >> > > >> > >In order to remove dvipdfmx dpkg runs update-texmf and mktexlsr -- but >> > >these are no longer on the machine. How do I get these programs away or >> > >how do I solve this problem? >> > >> > Can you re-install them? >> > >> > Otherwise it's often possible to apply more force through using dpkg >> > directly :-) >> > >> > /M >> > >> >> One thing I had to do in the past, when this has happened. create the >> file (touch file.name) or create the directory, so it can remove them. >> > >Thanks for the inputs, but the problem is, that dpkg calls >/usr/sbin/update-texmf so it can fix the tex-installation. So, create it manually (e.g. an executable shell script), remove the package, make sure it's gone at the end. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus@therning.org Jabber: magnus.therning@gmail.com http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. Hard work may not kill me, but why take the chance.
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