Bug#115906: no subject)

[Marshal Newrock <marshal@simons-rock.edu>]

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:

> > ls: /etc/X11/app-defaults/XDvi: No such file or directory
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           26 Sep  1 11:33
> > /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/XDvi -> /etc/X11/app-defaults/XDvi
> > (dangling symlink)
>
> Did you upgrade from potato or was this fresh installation?

I did a minimal installation of Potato, and immediately dist-upgraded to
Testing.

> And what is the result of "locate XDvi"?

possibly more info than you need, but:

$ locate -i xdvi
/usr/bin/oxdvi
/usr/bin/oxdvi.real
/usr/bin/xdvi
/usr/bin/xdvi.real
/usr/share/apps/kappfinder/apps/WordProcessing/xdvi.desktop
/usr/share/doc/texmf/help/Catalogue/entries/xdvi.html
/usr/share/doc/texmf/help/Catalogue/entries/xdvik.html
/usr/share/man/man1/oxdvi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/oxdvi.bin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/oxdvi.real.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xdvi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xdvi.bin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xdvi.real.1.gz
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/xypic/xyxdvi.tex
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi
/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/XDvi
/usr/share/WindowMaker/Icons/xdvi.tiff
/usr/share/WindowMaker/Icons/xdvi.xpm
/var/lib/gnome/Debian/Apps/Viewers/XDvi.desktop
/var/lib/kde/menu/Viewers/XDvi.desktop


> Is there /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/app-defaults/XDvi or
> /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/XDvi in your system?

Yes, but currently it (/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/XDvi) is only a dangling
symlink.

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