Re: Bug#298884: tetex-bin fails to install
weg@indiscrete.org (Eythan Weg) wrote:
> 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.
So now you are using which versions? I just found that tetex-bin_3.0-1
hasn't made it into the archive, although I got the ACCEPTED mail.
> This time I got back to the
> same position: TEXMFLOCAL defined incorrectly.
How was it defined? Did it ask you a question about that file? Or do
you use the noninteractive frontend?
I
> changed that in /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf and
> noticed a harmless but odd definition of
> TEXMFDIST. I left it alone.
Could you please send us /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf plus all files
with the same basename and a .cnf.dpkg-* extension?
> 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.
Could you send us the error message?
> 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')
That is a known bug which resulted from upgrading from 2.0.2 to
2.99-I_forgot, but should be fixed in 3.0. Are you sure that you
*purged* the tetex packages, not only *removed* them?
> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/share/perl5/De
> bconf/Config.pm line 14.
That's a known debconf bug, nobody knows what it is. Happens sometimes,
goes away again.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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