Bug#267886: tetex-extra: the package doesn't install cleanly. fmtutil error

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 25.08.04 Cesar Martinez Izquierdo (listas@ono.com) wrote:

Hi,

> Hell, tetex-extra doesn't install cleanly. I get an error while
> configuring. Here is some information:
> 
> Setting up tetex-extra (2.0.2b-2) ...
> Running initex. This may take some time. ...
> Error: `tex -ini  -jobname=latex -progname=latex latex.ini' failed
> Error: `etex -ini  -jobname=latex -progname=latex *latex.ini' failed
> Error: `etex -ini  -jobname=elatex -progname=elatex *elatex.ini' failed
> Error: `pdftex -ini  -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex pdflatex.ini'
> failed
> Error: `pdfetex -ini  -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex
> *pdflatex.ini' failed
> Error: `pdfetex -ini  -jobname=pdfelatex -progname=pdfelatex
> *pdfelatex.ini' failed
> Error: `omega -ini  -jobname=lambda -progname=lambda lambda.ini' failed
> 
<snip>
> 
> running `tex -ini   -jobname=latex -progname=latex latex.ini' ...
> This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (Web2C 7.4.5) (INITEX)
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/latex.ini
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/base/latex.ltx
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/texsys.cfg)
> ./texsys.aux found
> 
> 
<snip>
> frhyph.tex - French hyphenation patterns (V2.11) <2002/01/16>)
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/hyphen/dehypht.tex
> German Traditional Hyphenation Patterns `dehypht' Version 3.2a <1999/03/03>
> (Formerly known under the name `ghyph31' and `ghyphen'.))
> ! I can't find file `use'.
> <to be read again> 
>                    \relax 
> l.319   \repeat
>                
> Please type another input file name: 
> ! Emergency stop.
> <to be read again> 
>                    \relax 
> l.319   \repeat
>                
> No pages of output.
> Transcript written on latex.log.
> 
This is #263343, fixed in tetex-base 2.0.2a-3. For now please fix
that manually by commenting the line "For use with ngerman.sty (neue
Rechtschreibung)" (put a % at the beginning) in
/etc/texmf/language.dat. That file is a copy of
/usr/share/tetex-base/language.dflt, which is done in postin of
tetex-bin and will never been overwritten if it exists
once.
Hi all: Perhaps we should check in postin of tetex-bin, whether there
is a broken language.dat and fix it using sed. Else we get that bug
report over and over again.

H. 
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