Bug#329658: tetex-extra depends on ptex-bin for installation but not specified in package requirement

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

On 26.09.05 Magnus Sundberg (Magnus.Sundberg@dican.se) wrote:

Hi,

> Dear sir,
> 
Please not that formal...

> When I try to install tetex-extra, the system fails with
> 
> ===Snip of error Message===
> mktexlsr: Done.
> Running initex for missing formats. This may take some time. ...
> /usr/bin/fmtutil: line 253: ptex: command not found
> Error: `ptex -ini  -jobname=platex -progname=platex platex.ini' 
> failed
> ===End Snip of error message===
> ==(This is not the actual error message its a copy from bug 
> #232990 ==
> 
> After tracing down the error, I find that it is the ptex program
> that is missing.
> 
> I therefore beleive that tetex-extra should be declared as 
> depending of ptex-bin, since it fails to install if ptex-bin is 
> not installed.
> 
No it does not. tetex-extra is usable without having ptex innstalled.
Please give us the output of "dpkg -l ptex*",
"ls -l /tec/texmf/fmt.d/*" and
"grep ptex /var/lib/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf" .

Background: In the postin script of ptex-bin some old ptex*.cnf are
removed during purge but not renamed during remove. I'm afraid you
have still sitting there some entries for ptex in your fmtutil.cnf,
which try to call ptex.

Regards,
  Hilmar
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