Bug#66025: tetex-base: Preinst fails
Package: tetex-base
Version: N/A
Severity: grave
Totally unable to install because preinst exits with error code 1.
Like this:
escaflowne:~# apt-get install tetex-bin
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
tetex-base tetex-lib
The following NEW packages will be installed:
tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-lib
0 packages upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
Need to get 14.0MB of archives. After unpacking 43.4MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://sunsite.tut.fi unstable/main tetex-base 1.0.2-1 [11.3MB]
Get:2 http://sunsite.tut.fi unstable/main tetex-bin 1.0.7-1 [2647kB]
Get:3 http://sunsite.tut.fi unstable/main tetex-lib 1.0.7-1 [33.0kB]
Fetched 14.0MB in 1m8s (204kB/s)
(Reading database ... 24883 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking tetex-base (from .../tetex-base_1.0.2-1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-base_1.0.2-1_all.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Selecting previously deselected package tetex-lib.
Unpacking tetex-lib (from .../tetex-lib_1.0.7-1_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking tetex-bin (from .../tetex-bin_1.0.7-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-bin_1.0.7-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-base_1.0.2-1_all.deb
/var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-bin_1.0.7-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
-- System Information
Debian Release: 2.2
Kernel Version: Linux escaflowne 2.2.16-RAID #1 SMP Tue Jun 20 03:04:15 EEST 2000 i686 unknown
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