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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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