Bug#343572: tetex-bin: v. 3.0-12 won't install, fmtutil/etex/pdfetex fails
Helge Hafting <helge.hafting@broadpark.no> wrote:
> Package: tetex-bin
> Version: 3.0-12
> Severity: important
>
>
> (Version set to 3.0-12 manually, reportbug mistakenly said 3.0-11. Prossibly
> because the installation failed.)
You seem to have quite a mixture of installed and configured versions on
your system now. Your bugreport says:
> Versions of packages tetex-bin depends on:
> ii tetex-base 3.0-10 Basic library files of teTeX
Please upgrade your system completely, i.e. also upgrade tetex-base,
tetex-extra and tex-common.
> After having trouble with 3.0-11, I tried installing 3.0-12. I made a new bug report,
> as it doesn't seem to be exactly the same as last time.
Indeed, it looks new - and this indicates that probably the other one
has been fixed by updating tetex-bin, or by trying to configure it
again. Do you have a log of the update of tetex-bin available?
> After this, I can't run latex. X-(
You can't run latex? What does that mean? What happens if you save
these lines
\documentclass{minimal}
\begin{document}
hello world
\end{document}
into a file and run
latex <filename>
> Here's what happened:
>
> # apt-get -t untable install tetex-bin
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> tetex-bin is already the newest version. (My second try, now with LANG=C)
> 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
> 2 not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B of archives.
> After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
> Setting up tetex-bin (3.0-12) ...
> Replacing config file /etc/texmf/texmf.cnf with new version
This indicates that some other package (either tex-common or something
depending on it, like jadetex or ptex-*) wasn't configured properly before.
> Running fmtutil-sys. This may take some time. ...
> Error: `etex -ini -jobname=jadetex -progname=jadetex &latex jadetex.ini' failed
> Error: `pdfetex -ini -jobname=pdfjadetex -progname=pdfjadetex &pdflatex pdfjadetex.ini' failed
Please run the following commands, and send us the output:
$ dpkg -l tex-common tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-extra ptex-base ptex-bin jadetex
$ for package in tetex-base tetex-extra tetex-bin; do zcat /usr/share/doc/$package/changelog.Debian.gz | head -1; done
$ zcat /usr/share/doc/tex-common/changelog.gz | head -1
$ apt-get update # or aptitude if you prefer that
$ apt-get upgrade 2>&1 | tee upgrade.lg # or aptitude if you prefer that
Are there still errors? The output of the last command is in the file
upgrade.lg, please send us this file. Also, if there are still errors,
there will be a message about output in a temporary file
/tmp/tetex.postinst.*, please send us this file.
Regards, Frank
--
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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