Bug#244601: tetex-bin: package fails to configure: Error: `mpost -ini -jobname=metafun -progname=mpost metafun.mp' failed
Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:
> branden@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
> +++-=============================================-=============================================-==========================================================================================================
> ii tetex-extra 1.0.2+20011202-2 extra teTeX library files
Uups? In a mail from Tue, 20 Apr 2004 15:33:12 -0500 you wrote to the
same bug:
> 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)
Was tetex-extra-1.0.2 in fact installed when the bug occurred first? If
not, how come that it is now installed? Note that we said these files
"should not be there" because
- they are part of tetex-extra, which you said weren't installed
- they were at the location where they are on your system only in
tetex-1.0, and since you reported this against 2.0.2-12 we assumed you
were using unstable.
If yes, we need to check whether the (quite unlikely) coexistence of
tetex-bin_2.0.2 and tetex-base_2.0.2 with tetex-extra_1.0.2 causes the
problem, and thus we need a conflicts.
This is all very confusing.
>> As for the other problems - could you send us an ls -l of that directory
>> that should be a symlink, /usr/share/texmf/web2c/?
>
> branden@necrotic:~$ ls -l /usr/share/texmf/web2c/
> total 10840
I didn't check this in detail, but it looks just like a "copy" of the
directory were the link should point to. This includes some files that
are _not_ generated, but shipped in the deb, namely the *.pool and *.tcx
files - something/one must have copied them from
/var/lib/texmf/web2c. Also it seems that "dpkg-reconfigure tetex-bin"
was executed after the link was removed and the empty directory
generated, and answered with a non-default answer (at least fmtutil.cnf
as a symlink is not the default now, I'm not sure about the past).
Did you notice any tetex mess previously and tried to repair it
manually? It looks like this.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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