Bug#342247: updating tetex-extra fails

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

"Robert Sander" <robert.sander@epigenomics.com> wrote:

> Package: tetex-extra
> Version: 2.0.2c-8
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> Hi!
>
> The latest update is not installable:
>
> snell:~# apt-get install tetex-extra
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> The following packages will be upgraded:
>   tetex-extra
> 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> 1 not fully installed or removed.

What was the package that was "not fully installed or removed"?  I guess
it was tetex-extra?

> Need to get 0B/10.5MB of archives.
> After unpacking 16.4kB disk space will be freed.
> (Reading database ... 176463 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace tetex-extra 2.0.2c-8 (using
> .../tetex-extra_2.0.2c-8sarge1_all.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement tetex-extra ...
> Setting up tetex-extra (2.0.2c-8sarge1) ...
> Running updmap. This may take some time. ...
> Running updmap failed.
> dpkg: error processing tetex-extra (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  tetex-extra
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> snell:~# updmap
> updmap: config file updmap.cfg not found.

Please send us the output of

ls /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap*
kpsewhich --format='web2c files' updmap.cfg

Regards, Frank



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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer