Bug#325537: tetex-extra: package fails to configure: Error: `omega -ini -jobname=lambda -progname=lambda lambda.ini' failed
Marc Lehmann <schmorp@schmorp.de> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 12:27:17PM +0200, Ralf Stubner <ralf.stubner@physik.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> Hmm... is the version in experimental TDS 1.1?
Yes, it is.
> It could be that I
> inadvertently installed some experimental packages (by mistake, I
> changed the order of some lines in my sources.list and then stopped an
> upgrade. This is some time ago, though).
>
> Then this could be some leftover, in which case I need to apologize for
> reporting a bug caused by an experimental package :/
Oh, well, it was easy to find out ;-)
>> Did you have teTeX 3 installed at some time?
>
> Not knowingly, but very likely. I just looked, and in experimental there is
> indeed a tetex-bin version 3 something.
>
> Any idea on how to clean this up? I'd try rm -rf /usr/lib/texmf and
> reinstall..
That's dangerous - some packages that do *not* depend on tetex-base also
put files into /usr/share/texmf; for sure it's texinfo, but there might
be others. After purging tetex-base, you can test which files are
registered to dpkg by running
dpkg -S usr/share/texmf
and you can safely remove all files and directories that exist, but are
not in this list.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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