Re: Problems upgrading tetex

["C.M. Connelly" <c@eskimo.com>]

Paul,

I'm not entirely surprised you've run into some problems, but some
of the ones you've reported are weird.

A big part of it appears to be that you attempted to install parts
of the new system without the other parts.  If you were using apt,
the dependencies should have forced the installation of the newer
packages.

/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat hasn't required
you to install tetex-nonfree for a long time now -- presumably
your new tetex-bin was trying to use your old tetex-base files.

There hasn't been a tetex-nonfree for quite a while now, either,
as Thomas Esser (upstream teTeX author) has been removing all the
non-free files he's come across or had pointed out to him.

If someone else doesn't chime in with a better solution, you might
consider forcefully removing tetex and then reinstalling it.

If you do 

   debian# apt-get remove tetex-base -s | grep Remv | awk '{print $1}' > tetex-packages-to-reinstall
   debian# apt-get --purge remove tetex-base
   debian# apt-get install `cat tetex-packages-to-reinstall`

you should be able to get an up-to-date teTeX system on your
machine, along with any other packages that were removed because
of dependencies on the tetex-* packages.

   CMC

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