Bug#347355: unable to install tetex-extra, preinst failure
Package: tetex-extra
Version: 1.0.2+20021025-7
Severity: grave
Hello,
I cannot install tetex-extra because its preinst shows weird md5sum
problems (see below). I have been told that may be caused by obsolete coreutils,
however this is a up-to-date Sid system (installed with Slink or so and
dist-upgraded from then). Tetex-extra may have been installed and then
deinstalled in the past, I don't remember.
$ apt-get -f install
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
tetex-extra
The following NEW packages will be installed:
tetex-extra
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 97 not upgraded.
2 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/10.8MB of archives.
After unpacking 43.2MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
(Reading database ... 205050 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking tetex-extra (from .../tetex-extra_3.0-11_all.deb) ...
/etc/texmf/dvips/config.ams: md5sum not known. Exiting
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-extra_3.0-11_all.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/tetex-extra_3.0-11_all.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
ls -la /etc/texmf/dvips/config.*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 167 Sep 1 2002 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ams
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52 Jun 30 1998 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ams.dpkg-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 258 Sep 1 2002 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.amz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52 Jun 30 1998 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.amz.dpkg-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 185 Sep 1 2002 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51 Jun 30 1998 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cm.dpkg-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 262 Sep 1 2002 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cmz
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52 Jun 30 1998 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cmz.dpkg-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 166 May 23 1998 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.mirrorprint
md5sum /etc/texmf/dvips/config.*
df69e80e8157afde30550f21317bbd6d /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ams
32c36b063268c5e45819fe8114ce3cf0 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.ams.dpkg-old
0ef9213edceaaba3185a79e5946c8411 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.amz
b9c14f2d2e3923372e9067e2e1ee47b5 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.amz.dpkg-old
363c5ef43576af28b14330ae78ed5de8 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cm
68d23ead2901dddbc1779c905806b783 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cm.dpkg-old
949213a1865415e6f5199188ee57419e /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cmz
830f16e1e39c67b1c665a8b09824a7b4 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.cmz.dpkg-old
d8fe8cd35cf178202ee13f64c66dd2d9 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.mirrorprint
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages tetex-extra depends on:
ii dpkg 1.13.11.0.1 package maintenance system for Deb
ii gsfonts 8.14+v8.11+urw-0.2 Fonts for the Ghostscript interpre
ii perl-tk 1:800.025-2 Perl module providing the Tk graph
ii tetex-base 3.0-11 Basic library files of teTeX
pn tetex-bin <none> (no description available)
tetex-extra recommends no packages.
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