Bug#115906: no subject)

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

Marshal Newrock writes:
 > On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Christoph Martin wrote:
 > 
 > >  > When trying to install tetex-bin, I get a 'teTeX setup utility' dialog
 > >  > box, that complains:
 > >  > Could not find app-default file for xdvi.
 > >  >
 > >  > The programm will exit now.
 > >
 > > Also please do:
 > >
 > > ls -l /etc/X11/app-defaults/XDvi /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/XDvi
 > >
 > > This should give you:
 > >
 > > -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          126 Feb 13  1999 /etc/X11/app-defaults/XDvi
 > > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           26 Aug 24 15:00 /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/XDvi -> /etc/X11/app-defaults/XDvi
 > >
 > 
 > 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)

You seam to not have installed tetex-base. Why is that?

 > a final note: if I try to install xdvi, apt-get will select tetex-bin
 > instead.

There is no package xdvi.

Christoph