Bug#179939: tetex-base: Can't configure

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>]

On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 07:38:03PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> 
> > > cannot initialize curses
> > 
> > That's a seriously weird bug: /usr/bin/dialog can give this error.
> > But why is /usr/bin/dialog being run at all at this point?  What
> > output do you get if you run, as root:
> > 
> > /bin/sh -x /usr/sbin/texconfig init
> 
> It looks like it's looking for /usr/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg, which is a
> symlink to a nonexistant file on my system:
> [...]
> 
> The last umpteen relevant looking lines are:

> + test -d /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config
> + test -d /usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config
> + test -d /usr/share/texmf/xdvi
> + test -d /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config
> + test -d /usr/share/texmf/etex/plain/config
> + test -d /usr/share/texmf/tex/context/config
> + test -d /usr/share/texmf/web2c

This is from lines 1790-1794 in version 1.0.7+20021025-8 of tetex-bin

> + test -f /tmp/texconf3324/logfile

But I have no idea what this line is about or where it originates.

Could you purge tetex-{bin,base,extra} and reinstall?  I think that's
most likely to fix this.

   Julian

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