Bug#265247: tetex-bin: package fails to install

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 14.08.04 Peter Dey (pdey@realmtech.net) wrote:

Hi,

> > /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
> > /etc/texmf/language.dat
> 
> The above to files don't exist....
> 
/etc/texmf/language.dat is copied from
/usr/share/tetex-base/language.dflt during postin of tetex-bin if not
already present (fresh installation).

> > and is contained in the tetex-bin package.
> 
> Doing a little poking around in tetex-bin_2.0.2-17_i386.deb;
> 
> [nemesis@saturn] ~/tmp$ find . -iname "language.dat"
> ./usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat
> 
> So it appears that language.dat is in the tetex-bin package.. but
> not where you expected it.
> 
No, it is exactly where I expect to find it. Problem: Why is it not
on your system after the deb has been unpacked?

> [nemesis@saturn] ~/tmp$ ls /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
> fontmath.cfg  fonttext.cfg  language.dat  preload.cfg
> 
> And indeed, it's been put there.
> 
So, why is CUR_LDAT unset? Does dpkg --configure work now?

> > Is there a full HD or something similar?
> [nemesis@saturn] ~$ df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hdb2             12025592   5703880   5710844  50% /
> 
> Plenty of space free.
> 
...and I guess df -i gives you enough free inodes.

> Out of interest, is there a way to select the language patterns
> manually? e.g. `dpkg --configure tetex-lang` or something ?
> 
dpkg-reconfigure tetex-bin or editing language.dat manually.

H.
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