On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 10:44:28AM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> schrieb: > > > Couple of problems: > > > > 1) I had to specify manual solutions for tetex-bin and libkpathsea3 as > > well. > > Yes, downgrading is not well supported, neither by dpkg nor by our > packages in particular. Excuse me for not pointing this necessity out - Oh, I'm well aware of that. I just wanted you to know what recipe worked for me in case you need to offer similar advice in the future. > > 2) tetex-bin (from woody) won't configure! It hangs forever while > > running "texconfig init". pstree shows me that it is stuck attempting > > to run "dialog". > > Yes, that's #232725, fixed in unstable. Didn't know that it also exists > in woody - for now just install dialog. It *is* installed. necrotic:/home/branden# COLUMNS=90 dpkg -l dialog 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 +++-================-================-================================================ ii dialog 0.9b-20040316-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell s texconfig init hangs anyway. -- G. Branden Robinson | Debian GNU/Linux | kernel panic -- causal failure branden@debian.org | universe will now reboot http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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