Problems upgrading tetex
Hi,
Today I tried to upgrade TeTeX from "stable" to "testing" and ran in all sorts of
problems.
1) I did "apt-get install tetex-base. Installation stopped while
generating the first format.
2) I tried tetex-bin. This package installed, but could not generate a
number of formats. The log gave:
Error: `tex -ini -fmt=latex -progname=latex latex.ini' failed
Error: `etex -ini -efmt=elatex -progname=elatex *elatex.ini' failed
Error: `pdftex -ini -fmt=pdftex -progname=pdftex pdftex.ini' failed
Error: `pdftex -ini -fmt=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex pdflatex.ini' failed
Error: `pdfetex -ini -efmt=pdfelatex -progname=pdfelatex *pdfelatex.ini' failed
Error: `omega -ini -fmt=omega -progname=omega omega.ini' failed
Error: `omega -ini -fmt=lambda -progname=lambda lambda.ini' failed
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/amstex.fmt successfully generated.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/tex.fmt successfully generated.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/etex.efmt successfully generated.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/pdfetex.efmt successfully generated.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mpost.mem successfully generated.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mf.base successfully generated.
fmtutil: /usr/share/texmf/web2c/mfw.base successfully generated.
According to /usr/share/texmf/web2c/latex.log, the file nehyph2.tex
was missing.
3) I edited /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat. This
file said:
%% Beware: DEBIAN users have to install tetex-nonfree to use dutch and
%% nehyph2.tex
4) So I did "apt-get install tetex-nonfree". The installer said that I
wanted an impossible sutuation and that I ought to submit a bug-report.
5) Later, I thought that it might be better to install tetex-extra
instead of tetex-nonfree. However, the installer said:
dpkg: parse error, in file `/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 5759 package `tetex-extra':
empty file details field `MD5sum'
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (2)
The tetex-extra entry in the file available reads:
Package: tetex-extra
Priority: optional
Section: tex
Installed-Size: 30727
Maintainer: teTeX maintainers <debian-tetex-maint@lists.debian.org>
Architecture: all
Source: tetex-base
Version: 1.0.2+20011202-2
Replaces: kpathsea, texlib, textfm, latex, babel, bibtex, texidoc, texpsfnt, mfbasfnt, mfnfss, xdvik, amsfonts, amstex, amslatex, ltxmisc, ltxtool, psnfss, mfdcfnt, mflib, pandora, hyperref, cspsfonts, tetex-base (<< 1.0.2+20011128), tetex-french, tetex-nonfree, pb-diagram
Provides: tetex-nonfree, pb-diagram
Depends: tetex-base (>= 0.9.990311-1), tetex-bin (>= 0.9.990310-1), gsfonts
Pre-Depends: dpkg (>= 1.6.8)
Conflicts: kpathsea, texlib, textfm, babel, bibtex, texpsfnt, mfbasfnt, mfnfss, xdvik, amsfonts, amstex, amslatex, ltxmisc, ltxtool, psnfss, mfdcfnt, mflib, pandora, hyperref, tetex-french, cspsfonts, tetex-nonfree, pb-diagram
Filename: dists/potato/main/binary-all/tex/tetex-extra_1.0-10.deb
Size: 10471012
MD5sum:
Description: extra teTeX library files
teTeX (version 1.0) is a TeX distribution for UNIX compatible
systems.
.
Together with tetex-bin and tetex-base you have a complete
TeX installation.
.
Includes: texlib, latex, mflib, mfbasfnt, bibtex, textfm
As a result I can neither install nor remove tetex-extra.
Best regards,
Paul Huygen
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