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

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

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

Hi,

> >/etc/texmf/language.dat is copied from
> >/usr/share/tetex-base/language.dflt during postin of tetex-bin if not
> >already present (fresh installation).
> 
> Okay, tried manually copying
> /usr/share/tetex-base/language.dflt
> to /etc/texmf/language.dat
> 
> ran dpkg --configure tetex-bin
> (this still has the set -x modification in the postinst):
> 
> Running initex. This may take some time. ...
> + /usr/bin/fmtutil --all
> Error: `etex -ini  -jobname=latex -progname=latex *latex.ini' failed
> Error: `etex -ini  -jobname=elatex -progname=elatex *elatex.ini' failed
> Error: `pdfetex -ini  -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex *pdflatex.ini'
> failed
> Error: `pdfetex -ini  -jobname=pdfelatex -progname=pdfelatex
> *pdfelatex.ini' failed
> 
> <snip>
> 
> This is a summary of all `failed' messages and warnings:
> `etex -ini -jobname=latex -progname=latex *latex.ini' failed
> `etex -ini -jobname=elatex -progname=elatex *elatex.ini' failed
> `pdfetex -ini -jobname=pdflatex -progname=pdflatex *pdflatex.ini' failed
> `pdfetex -ini  -jobname=pdfelatex -progname=pdfelatex *pdfelatex.ini' failed
> + echo
> 
Great! And what you see here is probably #263343, which has been
fixed in latest upload of tetex-base. Comment the line "For use with
ngerman.sty (neue Rechtschreibung):" (put a % in front) to get
tetex-bin installed.

> >> [nemesis@saturn] ~/tmp$ ls /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
> >> fontmath.cfg  fonttext.cfg  language.dat  preload.cfg
> >> 
> 
> Well, it's there, but it hasn't been copied to
> /etc/texmf/language.dat...
> 
It is copied in postinst of tetex-bin. Unfortunately at first the
script failed a long time before this was done.

H. 
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