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



On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:59:32PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> On 20.04.04 Branden Robinson (branden@debian.org) wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 01:12:06PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> 
> Hi Branden,
> 
> > > Does this file exist?
> > 
> > No.
> > 
> > > What is the version of tetex-extra?
> > 
> > necrotic:~# dpkg -l tetex-extra
> > 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
> > +++-============================================-============================================-========================================================================================================
> > pn  tetex-extra                                  <none>                                       (no description available)
> > 
> > tetex-bin only Suggests: tetex-extra, and should not assume its files are
> > present.
> > 
> drachi:[tetex] >dpkg-deb -c tetex-extra_2.0.2-5.1_all.deb | grep metafun.mp
> -rw-r--r-- root/root      1407 2002-10-30 09:41:44 ./usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/base/metafun.mp
> drachi:[tetex] >dpkg-deb -c tetex-base_2.0.2-5.1_all.deb | grep metafun.mp
> drachi:[tetex] >
> 
> So then: Where does metafun.mp come from?

branden@necrotic:~$ dlocate -S metafun.mp
branden@necrotic:~$ locate metafun.mp
/usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp
branden@necrotic:~$ dpkg -S usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp
dpkg: *usr/share/texmf/metapost/context/metafun.mp* not found.

I assure you I didn't put that file there myself.

> What is the version of tetex-base installed?

branden@necrotic:~$ COLUMNS=80 dpkg -l | grep tetex
ii  tetex-base     2.0.2-6        Basic library files of teTeX
iF  tetex-bin      2.0.2-12       The teTeX binary files

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