Bug#357289: tetex-bin: Configuration fails - package won't install
Bingo:
root> ls -l /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Apr 19 2005 /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg -> /etc/texmf/updmap.cfg
root> rm /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
root> ls -l /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg
ls: /var/lib/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg: No such file or directory
And, finally:
root> apt-get install tetex-bin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
tetex-base
Suggested packages:
tetex-extra gs-gpl gs-esp gs-afpl gv postscript-viewer xpdf-reader pdf-viewer texi2html dvipng chktex lacheck rubber sam2p
Recommended packages:
tetex-doc dialog perl-tk
The following NEW packages will be installed:
tetex-base tetex-bin
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/26.0MB of archives.
After unpacking 86.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package tetex-base.
(Reading database ... 67635 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking tetex-base (from .../tetex-base_3.0-15_all.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package tetex-bin.
Unpacking tetex-bin (from .../tetex-bin_3.0-14_i386.deb) ...
Setting up tetex-base (3.0-15) ...
done
Creating config file /etc/texdoctk/texdocrc with new version
Setting up tetex-bin (3.0-14) ...
Creating config file /etc/texmf/fmt.d/01tetex.cnf with new version
Running fmtutil-sys. This may take some time. ...
Running updmap-sys. This may take some time. ... done.
root>
Thanks *VERY* much for your help!
--
Steve Lane
System, Network and Security Administrator
Doudna Lab
Biomolecular Structure and Mechanism Group
UC Berkeley
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 07:32:47PM +0100, Frank K?ster wrote:
> Steve Lane <drsteve@rna.berkeley.edu> wrote:
>
> > root> cat !$
> > cat /tmp/tetex.updmap.XXjv8Wcy
> > updmap-sys: config file updmap.cfg not found.
>
> Might be the same problem: updmap.cfg should be a normal file in
> /var/lib/texmf/web2c, is it a symlink on your system?
>
> The same advice holds as for fmtutil.cnf: Please change things in the
> files in /etc/texmf/updmap.d/, add things by adding files *.cfg in that
> directory.
>
> Regards, Frank
> --
> Frank K?ster
> Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Z?rich
> Debian Developer (teTeX)
>
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