Bug#95995: tetex-bin: pdflatex depends on tetex-extra

[Christoph Martin <martin@uni-mainz.de>]

Neil Conway writes:
 > I installed tetex-bin and tetex-base (plus the necessary
 > dependancies), and tried to run pdflatex. It didn't work:
 > 
 > [nconway:/home/nconway/work/misc/cuspidor]% pdflatex luke_response.tex
 > This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14f-released-20000525 (Web2C 7.3.1)
 > I can't find the format file `pdflatex.fmt'!
 > 
 > (latex on the same file works fine).
 > 
 > After installing tetex-extra, the problem goes away, and
 > pdflatex works properly. Therefore, it appears to me that
 > pdflatex depends on tetex-extra.

Can you please report which error message was found in the temp files
which were created during install and which names were reported on
your screen. There should be a hint to which files were missing.

Christoph