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Bug#244601: tetex-bin: package fails to configure: Error: `mpost -ini -jobname=metafun -progname=mpost metafun.mp' failed



On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 12:48:28PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> On 19.04.04 Branden Robinson (branden@debian.org) wrote:
> 
> Hi Branden,
> 
> > Perhaps the following chunk of the output log has something to do with it:
> > 
> > running `mpost -ini   -jobname=metafun -progname=mpost metafun.mp' ...
> > This is MetaPost, Version 0.641 (Web2C 7.4.5) (INIMP)
> > (/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp
> > ! I can't find file `plain.mp'.
> > l.27   input plain.mp
> >                       ; % John Hobby's file
> > Please type another input file name:
> > ! Emergency stop.
> > l.27   input plain.mp
> >                       ; % John Hobby's file
> > Transcript written on metafun.log.
> > 
> Both files are sitting in tetex-extra. plain.mp should be in
> /usr/share/texmf/metapost/base . Is it there?

The directory exists, but nothing is in it:

branden@necrotic:~$ ls /usr/share/texmf/metapost/base
branden@necrotic:~$ ls -a /usr/share/texmf/metapost/base
.  ..
branden@necrotic:~$ dlocate -S /usr/share/texmf/metapost/base
tetex-base: /usr/share/texmf/metapost/base

> Does run mktexlsr without errors?

Yes:

necrotic:~# mktexlsr
mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/lib/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /var/cache/fonts/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Done.

> Is there a full partition or something similar?

No:

necrotic:~# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1              12G  9.3G  1.4G  88% /
tmpfs                 124M     0  124M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdd1             9.3G  5.0G  3.9G  57% /scratch

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |
Debian GNU/Linux                   |           If ignorance is bliss,
branden@debian.org                 |           is omniscience hell?
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |

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