Bug#78640: tetex fails to configure: missing texmf.cnf
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 1.0.7+20000807-5
Something is definitely going wrong with the installation of the tetex
packages. Details:
pogonip:~# 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 127 not
upgraded.
Need to get 16.2MB of archives. After unpacking 47.3MB will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
Get:1 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main tetex-base
1.0.2+20000804-3 [13.3M
B]
Get:2 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main tetex-bin
1.0.7+20000807-5 [2873kB]
Get:3 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main tetex-lib
1.0.7+20000807-5 [33.6kB]
Fetched 16.2MB in 8m15s (32.6kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package tetex-base.
(Reading database ... 29689 files and directories currently
installed.)
Unpacking tetex-base (from .../tetex-base_1.0.2+20000804-3_all.deb)
...
Selecting previously deselected package tetex-lib.
Unpacking tetex-lib (from .../tetex-lib_1.0.7+20000807-5_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package tetex-bin.
Unpacking tetex-bin (from .../tetex-bin_1.0.7+20000807-5_i386.deb) ...
Setting up tetex-base (1.0.2+20000804-3) ...
Setting up tetex-lib (1.0.7+20000807-5) ...
Setting up tetex-bin (1.0.7+20000807-5) ...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Done.
/usr/bin/texconfig: No $TEXMFMAIN in texmf.cnf file.
/usr/bin/texconfig: set TEXMFCNF variable to the directory where
teTeX's texmf.cnf file is in.
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)
pogonip:~# uname -a
Linux pogonip 2.2.17 #1 Thu Sep 7 13:09:26 EDT 2000 i586 unknown
pogonip:~# pogonip:~# ls -l /lib/libc.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Nov 11 19:50 /lib/libc.so.6
-> libc-2.2.so
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