Bug#115906: no subject)

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

On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Christoph Martin 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)
>  > >
>  > > You seam to not have installed tetex-base. Why is that?
>  >
>  > tetex-base is installed.  The depends for tetex-bin look correct.
>  > The '/usr/share/texmf/xdvi/XDvi' symlink came from tetex-base.
>  >
>  > $ dpkg -l 'tetex*'
>  > ii  tetex-base     1.0.2+20000804 basic teTeX library files
>  > iF  tetex-bin      1.0.7+20001218 teTeX binary files
>  > ii  tetex-doc      1.0.2+20000804 teTeX documentation
>  > iU  tetex-extra    1.0.2+20000804 extra teTeX library files
>
> Do you have version tetex-base_1.0.2+20000804-9 installed? This
> package has /etc/X11/app-defaults/XDvi.

I used 'dpkg -s' on tetex-base, and it was 1.0.2+20000804-9, and
/etc/X11/app-defaults/XDvi was the first file listed in it.

I removed all four tetex packages and purged the conf files, and then
installed again.  No problems now.  All is good.

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Marshal Newrock, Simon's Rock College of Bard
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