Re: updmap failed in tetex-bin 3.0-7's postinst

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

Ralf Stubner wrote:
> > To which symlink are you referring?
> > 
> > jmm@galadriel:~$ ls -ld /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips drwxr-xr-x
> > 2 root root 4096 Nov 27  2004 /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips
> > 
> > The directory only contains a pfr.map file.
> 
> That looks like the error. /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips should be a
> link to /etc/texmf/maps/dvips. Moritz, did you install some Adobe
> Frutiger metrics (eg from Walter Schmidt) together with teTeX 2 in
> /usr/share/texmf/? 

I might. I don't remember, but I can't rule it out. My TeX setup is basically
the same since years.

> In that case, /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips would
> have existed on installation of teTeX 3 already. I don't know how dpkg
> reacts if it can't create the symlink.

If dvips as a directory didn't exist prior to tetex3, it was most probably
PEBKAC.

Thanks,
        Moritz