Re: Bug#298884: tetex-bin fails to install

[weg@indiscrete.org (Eythan Weg)]

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 11:24:47 +0100,
 Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:

    
  Have you been using older versions of the experimental packages, too?  I
  must admit that I didn't take care for upgrades from 2.9x to later 2.9x
  or 3.0.  
    
  If this is the case, simply remove the link and get the needed file from

Yes it was.
    
  http://cvs.debian.org/*checkout*/tetex-base/tex/plain/config/Attic/language.def?rev=1.1.2.1&cvsroot=tetex&hideattic=0 
    
I tried your suggestion and it worked.  However, I
noticed that texmf.cnf does not define TEXMFLOCAL
as it used to.  That led me in a round about way
to purge tetex entirely.  I installed tetex-base,
and then tetex-bin.  This time I got back to the
same position: TEXMFLOCAL defined incorrectly.  I
changed that in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf and
noticed a harmless but odd definition of
TEXMFDIST.  I left it alone.  But the worst part
is that the cmr10 font, for example, was not
found.  But installing tetex-extra, unexpectedly,
seems to solve that.  I do not know what would
happen if my preference had been for bitmap
fonts, though.


On installing tetex-base I noticed this:

Unpacking tetex-base (from .../tetex-base_3.0-1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: tetex-base: warning - config file `etc/texmf/platex/language.dat' is a cir
cular link
 (= `/etc/texmf/platex/language.dat')
dpkg: tetex-base: warning - config file `etc/texmf/platex/hyphen.cfg' is a circu
lar link
 (= `/etc/texmf/platex/hyphen.cfg')
dpkg: tetex-base: warning - config file `etc/texmf/cyrplain/cyrtex.cfg' is a cir
cular link
 (= `/etc/texmf/cyrplain/cyrtex.cfg')
Setting up tetex-base (3.0-1) ...
dpkg: tetex-base: warning - config file `/etc/texmf/platex/language.dat' is a ci
rcular link
 (= `/etc/texmf/platex/language.dat')
dpkg: tetex-base: warning - config file `/etc/texmf/platex/hyphen.cfg' is a circ
ular link
 (= `/etc/texmf/platex/hyphen.cfg')
dpkg: tetex-base: warning - config file `/etc/texmf/cyrplain/cyrtex.cfg' is a ci
rcular link
 (= `/etc/texmf/cyrplain/cyrtex.cfg')
Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/De
bconf/Config.pm line 14.



Thank you.  Eythan