Re: Please examine Bug#361952

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@imsc.res.in> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> The bug number 361952 has mystified me.
>
> A quick summary:
>
> While installing tex4ht-common the update-texmf program is called but
> it exits with an error saying /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf cannot
> be found. ("tex4ht" and "tex4ht-common" depend on "tetex-bin |
> texlive-base-bin")
>
> As I responded to the submitter, I cannot imagine
> how this bug happened and cannot reproduce it either.

I guess this must be a partially upgraded system, tex-common is
installed, but not yet configured properly, and tetex-bin (and probably
-base) is still at the old version.  tetex-bin_2.0.2-31 means that he is
using testing, but testing has 3.0-* for ages.

Can you, the submitter, please try whether tex-common is somehow
configured:

dpkg -l tex-common
grep texmf.d /var/lib/ucf/hashfile

If the last commands gives a line with 05TeXMF.cnf, tex-common needs to
be purged, something has gone badly wrong.

Otherwise the submitter should just do

apt-get update

and then 

dpkg --configure -a
apt-get -f install
apt-get dist-upgrade

and repeat these three commands until none of them does anything again.
After that, the problem should have disappeared.



Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)