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

[Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>]

Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> wrote:

> Ralf Stubner wrote:
>> 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 dpkf finds a mismatch between directories and symlinks to directories
between the system and the deb's contents, it just does nothing; only
when a symlink and a file are involved will you get an error.

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

It didn't exist in the TeX Directory Structure 1.0, and therefore not in
tetex2.  

So to fix it, move the contents of that directory to
/etc/texmf/map/dvips or any subdirectory (which you can also create),
and then remove the empty directory and create the symlink:

$ ls -ld /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 20 2005-10-17 16:33 /usr/share/texmf/fonts/map/dvips -> /etc/texmf/map/dvips

Regards, Frank

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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer