Bug#325537: tetex-extra: package fails to configure: Error: `omega -ini -jobname=lambda -progname=lambda lambda.ini' failed
Marc Lehmann wrote:
[...]
> It seems that "lambda.log" is the relevant logfile:
>
> This is Omega, Version 3.14159--1.23.2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5) (INIOMEGA)
> 28 AUG 2005 11:37
> Copyright (c) 1994--2000 John Plaice and Yannis Haralambous
> **lambda.ini
> (/usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/lambda.ini
> ! I can't find file `lambda.tex'.
> l.3 \input lambda.tex
That is strange. /usr/share/texmf/tex/latex/config/lambda.ini is the
right location for a TDS 1.1 compliant distribution like teTeX 3. teTeX
2 complies with TDS 1, where this file should be located in
/usr/share/texmf/omega/lambda/config/lambda.ini.
[...]
> I guess "lambda" is simply not there. Looking a bit for lamba.text, I
> find one here:
>
> /usr/share/texmf/omega/lambda/base/lambda.tex (part of tetex-extra)
>
> Not knowing much about tex, I have no idea what that means :)
This is correct for a TDS 1.0 compliat distribution like teTeX 2. Could
you tell us the output of
kpsewhich --progname=lambda --show-path=tex
please?
> However, what I did was apt-get upgrade from a working version of
> tetex, which failed to configure because it started to use a program
> "aleph" in my PATH that wasn't the correct one. Removing that from
> the PATH does not help, though, maybe this is related, maybe not.
Strange again. "aleph" is part of teTeX 3 but not teTeX 2.
Did you have teTeX 3 installed at some time?
cheerio
ralf
PS: Frank: I have just learned that there exists a Debian package
'aleph' which also provides /usr/bin/aleph, but is of course completly
unrelated to TeX. :-(
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