Bug#343308: tetex-bin: fmtutil-sys: problems with amsptex from ptex-base

[Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@broadpark.no>]

Frank Küster wrote:

> Hi Helge,
>
> Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@broadpark.no> wrote:
>
>  
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> > Error: `ptex -ini  -jobname=amsptex -progname=amsptex amsptex.ini' failed
> >
> >    
> [...]
>  
>
> > (/usr/share/texmf/ptex/plain/base/kinsoku.tex))
> > ! I can't find file `amstex'.
> > l.2 \input amstex
> >    
>
> This file is installed by tetex-extra and should be in 
>
> /usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/amstex/base/amstex.tex
>
> Is it there on your system?  What is (as root) the output of
>  
# ls -l /usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/amstex/base/amstex.tex
-rw-r--r--  1 root root 78920 2001-10-04 06:08 
/usr/share/texmf-tetex/tex/amstex/base/amstex.tex

It is there. Do you want a copy?
Could this be a case of tetex-bin being upgraded before tetex-extra?

> kpsewhich --progname=amsptex --var-value TEXINPUTS.amsptex
>  
# kpsewhich --progname=amsptex --var-value TEXINPUTS.amsptex
.:{/root/.texmf-config,/root/.texmf-var,/root/texmf,/etc/texmf,!!/var/lib/texmf,!!/usr/local/share/texmf,!!/usr/share/texmf}/{ptex,tex}/{amstex,plain,generic,}//