Bug#330078: latex points to etex, not to tex
Package: tetex-bin
Version: 2.0.2-31
Severity: important
In order to update my pacage scalable-cyrfonts-tex for teTeX 3 I
installed the version from experimental. However tetex-extra is
missing there so later I downgraded my packages to the version from
etch and sid. When I tried to use latex I got:
$ latex test.tex
This is e-TeX, Version 3.14159-2.1 (Web2C 7.4.5)
(Fatal format file error; I'm stymied)
I don't use latex very often and I don't know whether this was caused
by installing the packages from experimental. I purged the packages
tetex-bin, tetex-base and tetex-extra and then reinstalled them but
the situation didn't improve. Finally I found that the latex is a
symlink to etex, I changed it by hands to point to tex and now my
latex works.
Even if the probem was caused by installing experimental packages,
purging tetex-* packages had to fix the problem. Thats why I am
reporting the bug against the versions from etch and sid.
Anton Zinoviev
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27
Locale: LANG=bg_BG.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=bg_BG.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
ii debconf 1.4.58 Debian configuration management sy
ii debianutils 2.14.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii dpkg 1.13.11 package maintenance system for Deb
ii ed 0.2-20 The classic unix line editor
ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.1-2 GCC support library
ii libice6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libkpathsea3 2.0.2-31 path search library for teTeX (run
ii libpaper1 1.1.14-3 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libsm6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System Session Management
ii libstdc++6 4.0.1-2 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libt1-5 5.1.0-2 Type 1 font rasterizer library - r
ii libwww0 5.4.0-9 The W3C WWW library
ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxaw7 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Athena widget set library
ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxmu6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System miscellaneous util
ii libxt6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii mime-support 3.35-1 MIME files 'mime.types' & 'mailcap
ii perl 5.8.7-3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii sed 4.1.4-2 The GNU sed stream editor
ii tetex-base 2.0.2c-8 Basic library files of teTeX
ii ucf 2.001 Update Configuration File: preserv
ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-7 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-4 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages tetex-bin recommends:
ii dialog 1.0-20050911-1 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
ii perl-tk 1:800.025-2 Perl module providing the Tk graph
ii psutils 1.17-17 A collection of PostScript documen
ii texi2html 1.76-2 Convert Texinfo files to HTML
ii whiptail 0.51.6-30 Displays user-friendly dialog boxe
-- debconf information:
tetex-bin/upd_map: true
tetex-bin/cnf_name:
tetex-bin/fmtutil: true
tetex-bin/fmtutil-failed:
tetex-bin/userperm: false
tetex-bin/updmap-failed:
tetex-bin/hyphen: french[=patois], ngerman[=naustrian-neue_Rechtschreibung]
tetex-bin/oldcfg: true
tetex-bin/use_debconf: false
tetex-bin/groupname: users
tetex-bin/groupperm: true
tetex-bin/lsr-perms: true
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