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Re: Bug#338587: tex-common fails to install



Eric Valette wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
> 
>>>>On Fre, 11 Nov 2005, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>Setting up tex-common (0.10) ...
>>>>>>debconf: Unable to load Debconf::Element::Dialog.
>>
>>
>>I imagine that a strace -f of a run of dpkg-reconfigure or any other
>>debconf command that reproduces the problem would show clearly what it
>>is.
>>
>>Most likely is that the file has gone missing on the local system due to
>>disk corruption, accidental deletion, or a screwed up local install of
>>perl that's somehow not finding it.
>>
> 
> 
> Disks are clean. I reinstalled debconf, dialog. No change.
> 

I extracted the postinst script and run it manually. I have run "sh -x
./postinst configure" by hand, replaced by the maintainer version of I
don't remember what and the bug is gone??? Black magic somewhere.

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