Bug#373868: tetex-doc: texdoctk can't find documentation files

[Ross Boylan <ross@biostat.ucsf.edu>]

Package: tetex-doc
Version: 3.0-18
Severity: normal

Severity note: This makes the package unusable by me.  If this is a
general problem, it probably merits higher severity.

I start texdoctk from the Debian help menu (help | TeXdoctk).  
Click on "Fundamentals/General References".
Click on "User's guide" and the "view" button.
A popup window says " ERROR
usrguide.dvi not found, cancelling"

I get similar results with every other file I tried.

I have the files, but compressed, e.g., 
/usr/share/doc/tetex-doc/latex/base/usrguide.dvi.gz

I speculate that this is similar to other bugs about using dvi files
that were fixed recently (306830, 356197---actually, the first is
still open).  I guess they were fixed for other ways of looking at the
help files.

As a work around, I'll manually unzip the file and look at it with xdvi.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (40, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

tetex-doc depends on no packages.

Versions of packages tetex-doc recommends:
ii  acroread [pdf-viewer] 7.0.5-0.3          Adobe Acrobat Reader: Portable Doc
ii  firefox [www-browser] 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-2 lightweight web browser based on M
ii  gs-esp [postscript-vi 8.15.1.dfsg.1-2    The Ghostscript PostScript interpr
ii  gs-gpl [postscript-vi 8.50-1.1           The GPL Ghostscript PostScript int
ii  gv [pdf-viewer]       1:3.6.1-13         PostScript and PDF viewer for X
ii  kghostview [pdf-viewe 4:3.5.3-1          PostScript viewer for KDE
ii  konqueror [www-browse 4:3.5.2-2+b1       KDE's advanced file manager, web b
ii  kpdf [pdf-viewer]     4:3.5.3-1          PDF viewer for KDE
ii  lynx [www-browser]    2.8.5-2sarge2      Text-mode WWW Browser
ii  tetex-bin             3.0-16             The teTeX binary files
ii  xpdf                  3.01-8             Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  xpdf-reader [pdf-view 3.01-8             Portable Document Format (PDF) sui
ii  xpdf-utils [pdf-viewe 3.01-8             Portable Document Format (PDF) sui

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