Bug#366907: tetex-bin: Fails to configure, updmap failed

["Liam M. Healy" <lnp@healy.washington.dc.us>]

I had a custom-made /etc/texmf/texmf.d/05TeXMF.cnf which was not
removed because I had not purged tex-common; this happened because I
grepped packages for "tetex" and I didn't see tex-common.
However, when I tried to purge tex-common together with all the tetex
packages, nothing happened.  It was necessary to purge the package by
itself, 
 aptitude purge tex-common  
then install
  apt-get install tex-common
  aptitude install tetex-base tetex-bin tetex-doc tetex-extra tetex-src auctex
At this point all appears well; the files you mention like
/var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFDIST-TETEX now are present and TeX runs
normally. 

Thanks for the pointer to tex-common, the separate purge and
reinstallation seems to have fixed the problem.  I do not recall being
asked about 05TexMF.cnf; I usually look at the differences if I do not
have a good feeling that the changes are benign and that the old
configuration is acceptable.