Bug#299644: tetex-bin: dependency problems with upgrading to tetex 3.0

[Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 12:34:33PM -0500, Eythan Weg wrote:
> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 3.0-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Upgrading from tetex 2.02 to 3.0-2 was met with dependencies issues.  
> Packages which rely on tex prevented the upgrade.  Even when there
> were no other packages than tetex upgrade was impossible.  My solution
> was to purge tetex altogether.  Here is a collection responses from
> dpkg  separated by ================.  I had to sequentially remove
> packages and retry the installation.

Unfortunately, you have not shown the dpkg command lines you used.

Have you tried the following dpkg commands/sequence of commands
(untested)?

(1) dpkg --auto-deconfigure -i tetex-bin_3.0-2_<arch>.deb \
      tetex-base_3.0-2_all.deb

or:

(2) dpkg --force-depends -i tetex-bin_3.0-2_<arch>.deb \
      tetex-base_3.0-2_all.deb

How does apt do it?

   Julian