Bug#79213: no texmf.cnf file: cannot install tetex on up-to-date woody

[Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>]

From: sgr@rotzorg.org
Subject: Re: Bug#79213: no texmf.cnf file: cannot install tetex on up-to-date woody
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 09:56:37 +0100

> Dear Atsuhito

Hi, Sander.

> I've used teTeX to write my thesis, so at one time it worked. I did not update my teTeX system for a while (because the downloads were huge). Later, i tried updating, but this failed. I purged all off teTeX from my system and tried i fresh install, but this failed too.

I see.  Did you really do 'dpkg --purge tetex-*' instead of
only 'dpkg --remove tetex-*'?
texmf.cnf is conffiles so only removing might cause trouble.

And is there /usr/lib/texmf or something in your system?

> So, i didn't set the TEXMF envvar, because before installing teTeX i didn't have teTeX :)

Well, it is another story if you set TEXMF or not, and if you installed
tetex-* packages or not.  Please check 'env | grep TEX'.

> In the mailinglist archive of debian-tetex-maint i found another bugreport (#78640) describing the same error.

Yes, yes and I can not guess what happened really to you well.
I only pointed some possibilities and they might be irrelevant.

Regards,			 2001.1.3

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 Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
 Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.