Bug#232990: tetex-extra fails postinst

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

carbonated beverage <ramune@net-ronin.org> wrote:

> Package: tetex-extra
> Version: 2.0.2-5.1
>
> Forgot I had to hack this one up a bit before.
> The postinst script does
> 	fmtutil --missing > $TEMPFILE
>
> And fails with:
>
> Script started on Mon Feb 16 00:12:09 2004
> root:tobacco:info: apt-get -f install
>
> [[ snip lots of building package dependancy messages ]]
>
> Setting up tetex-extra (2.0.2-5.1) ...
> mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/lib/texmf/ls-R... 
> mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R... 
> mktexlsr: Updating /var/cache/fonts/ls-R... 
> mktexlsr: Done.
> Running initex for missing formats. This may take some time. ...
> /usr/bin/fmtutil: line 253: ptex: command not found
> Error: `ptex -ini  -jobname=platex -progname=platex platex.ini' failed

I'm not sure, but this is probably a bug in ptex-bin. Could you give us
the output of the following commands:

dpkg -l ptex-bin ptex-base
ls -l /etc/texmf/fmt.d/

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie