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

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

weg@indiscrete.org (Eythan Weg) schrieb:

> On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 18:21:06 +0100,
>  Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> wrote:
>
>     
>   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. 
>
> 3.0-1

That's quite impossible as far as tetex-bin is concerned, because
tetex-bin_3.0-1 got lost, it's only on my local system ;-) Or do you
really have a mirror that has that file?

>     
>     > 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?
>
> TEXMFLOCAL = /usr/share/texmf-local
>
[...]
> The attached is the original 05TeXMF.cnf.  There
> are no related files (.cnf.dpkg-*).

Oh, yes, that's an old one from 2.99.12.  I just sent a mail to the
ftpmasters, asking where the 3.0-1 files got lost.

I don't think that it makes sense to debug the tex error in this
situation. 

>     > 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?
>
> Yes, and it is verified in the bash history.
>
> apt-get --purge  remove  tetex-bin
> apt-get --purge  remove  tetex-base
>
> I did not have any 2.0.2 files.

Hm.  Can you purge tetex-base again, and check whether there are any
files left in /etc/texmf?  There shouldn't (unless some other packages
messes around there that does *not* depend on tetex). 

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer