Bug#185441: tetex-extra: Overwriting file from tetex-base

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 19.03.03 Harlan Crystal (harlan@sdf1.2y.net) wrote:

> Package: tetex-extra
> Version: 1.0.2+20011202-2
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   tetex-extra 
> 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15  not
> upgraded.
> Need to get 0B/10.2MB of archives. After unpacking 38.8MB will be used.
> (Reading database ... 46817 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking tetex-extra (from .../tetex-extra_1.0.2+20011202-3_all.deb)
>                                             ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Actually I'm offline. Is that package an official debian package?

> dpkg: error processing
> /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-extra_1.0.2+20011202-3_all.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite
> `/usr/share/texmf/pdfetex/latex/config/pdfelatex.ini', which is also in
> package tetex-base
> 
drachi:[hille] >dpkg -L tetex-base|grep elatex
/usr/share/texmf/etex/latex/config/elatex.ini
drachi:[hille] >dpkg -l tetex-base
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
|Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version        Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
ii  tetex-base     1.0.2+20011202 basic teTeX library files
drachi:[hille] >dpkg -L tetex-base|grep pdfelatex
drachi:[hille] >

Could you please post the version of your installed tetex-base?

H. 
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