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Re: Installation Problems: tetex-bin (2.0.2-20)



Sascha Harden <s.harden@web.de> wrote:

> Can you help me or fix the post-installation script? 

Do you have a file on your system whose name ends with "TEXMF", with
some random digits before this? (probably in the directory where you
called apt-get upgrade or dselect, or you can find it with "locate
TEXMF). If yes, this is a known bug, and we will fix it soon.

For the time being, you have several options: Either you look into
/etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf. There's the line:

TEXMF = {$HOMETEXMF,!!$TEXMFLOCAL,!!$TEXMFOLDLOCAL,!!$VARTEXMF,!!$TEXMFMAIN}

in /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf, there is a similar line without the VARTEXMF
entry. Copy the line from 05TeXMF.cnf into texmf.cnf, replacing the old
line, or just insert VARTEXMF.

Alternatively, you can open /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-bin.postinst in an
editor and look for the only place where two dollar signs appear
together: 

mv $tempfile $$ETXMFC

change this to

mv $tempfile $ETXMFC

and call dpkg --configure -a

> I need this package
> and have made the mistake to use the unstable tree...Perhaps you can
> tell me, hodw to install an older version?

You can get the testing version and download it manually from the Debian
ftp servers; but in this case this won't help you.

Take our apologies for those inconveniences,
Frank

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



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